Potential RealPlayer 8 Vulnerability

[Dave Cotter <dcotter () real com>]

On January 17th, 2002, a security exploit affecting RealPlayer 8 was 
brought to the attention of RealNetworks.  The specific exploit, commonly 
known as a "buffer overrun", could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code 
on a victim's machine.

We have not yet received reports of anyone actually being attacked with 
this exploit, however, a fix will be made available by end of day Friday 
via the RealPlayer AutoUpdate Service, and for Enterprise RealPlayer users 
at: http://www.service.real.com/help/faq/security/index.html.

RealNetworks would like to thank Tim Morgan for reporting this issue to us 
and working with us to protect customers from unauthorized access to 
sensitive or proprietary information.