CVE-2009-4242
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 8.5%
exploitation probability
8.5%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Heap-based buffer overflow in the CGIFCodec::GetPacketBuffer function in datatype/image/gif/common/gifcodec.cpp in RealNetworks RealPlayer 10; RealPlayer 10.5 6.0.12.1040 through 6.0.12.1741; RealPlayer 11 11.0.0 through 11.0.4; RealPlayer Enterprise; Mac RealPlayer 10, 10.1, and 11.0; Linux RealPlayer 10; and Helix Player 10.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a GIF file with crafted chunk sizes that trigger improper memory allocation.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/datatype-cvs/2008-September/008633.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/61966https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561436http://secunia.com/advisories/38218http://secunia.com/advisories/38450http://securitytracker.com/id?1023489http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/01192010_player/en/https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55795https://helixcommunity.org/viewcvs/datatype/image/gif/common/gifcodec.cpp?view=log#rev1.8https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10144http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0094.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509096/100/0/threaded