National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2922
Original release date:12/31/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#172489
Name: VU#172489
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.service.real.com/realplayer/security/03162006_player/en/
Type: Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:788
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:762
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:018
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-1057
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19365
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: realnetworks-chunked-transferencoding-bo(25409)
External Source: BID
Name: 17202
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1015808
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19358
Type: Advisory
