CVE-2005-2922

critical

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the embedded player in multiple RealNetworks products and versions including RealPlayer 10.x, RealOne Player, and Helix Player allows remote malicious servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a chunked Transfer-Encoding HTTP response in which either (1) the chunk header length is specified as -1, (2) the chunk header with a length that is less than the actual amount of sent data, or (3) a missing chunk header.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11444

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25409

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1057

http://www.service.real.com/realplayer/security/03162006_player/en/

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-788.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-762.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_18_realplayer.html

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/172489

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015808

http://secunia.com/advisories/19365

http://secunia.com/advisories/19358

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-12-31

Updated: 2017-10-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical