Fedora 7 : HelixPlayer-1.0.7-6.fc7 (2007-0756)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27679

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the way RealPlayer and HelixPlayer handle the wallclock variable in Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) files.

More information regarding this flaw can be found here:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=5 47

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected HelixPlayer, HelixPlayer-debuginfo and / or HelixPlayer-plugin packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0affccca

http://www.nessus.org/u?e4b54f98

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27679

File Name: fedora_2007-0756.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:helixplayer, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:helixplayer-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:helixplayer-plugin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2007

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3410

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2007-0756