full-disclosure - Secunia Research: RealPlayer AAC Spectral Data Parsing Vulnerability

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Message-Id: <201012201542.oBKFgT8w020661@CA-IX-1.intnet>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:42:29 +0100
From: Secunia Research <remove-vuln@...unia.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Secunia Research: RealPlayer AAC Spectral Data
	Parsing Vulnerability

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                     Secunia Research 10/12/2010

       - RealPlayer AAC Spectral Data Parsing Vulnerability -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10

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1) Affected Software 

* RealPlayer SP 1.1.4
* RealPlayer Enterprise 2.1.2
* Mac RealPlayer 12.0.0.1444

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity 

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where:  Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software 

"RealPlayer® SP lets you download video from thousands of Websites 
– free! Just click on the "download this video" button above the video 
you want. It's just that easy. Now you can watch your favorite videos 
anywhere, anytime."

Product Link:
http://www.real.com/realplayer/

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in RealPlayer, which 
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused by an error in the parsing of AAC audio 
content and can be exploited to corrupt memory via specially crafted 
spectral data.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution 

Update to RealPlayer SP 1.1.5, RealPlayer Enterprise 2.1.3, and Mac 
RealPlayer 12.0.0.1548.

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6) Time Table 

01/03/2010 - Vendor notified.
01/03/2010 - Vendor response.
11/03/2010 - Vendor provides status update.
19/10/2010 - Vendor provides status update.
29/11/2010 - Vendor provides status update.
10/12/2010 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits 

Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned 
CVE-2010-0125 for the vulnerability.

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9) About Secunia

Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate
customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence
relevant to their specific system configuration:

http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/

Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory
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http://secunia.com/advisories/

Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to
do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the 
security and reliability of software in general:

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below
to see currently vacant positions:

http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/

Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories:

http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/

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10) Verification 

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-15/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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