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RealPlayer 0-day exploit was found in malicious


From: lzscg <lzscg () 126 com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:43:30 +0800 (CST)

 
 
Most vendors reported that RealPlayer 0-day exploit was found in malicious .html files, such as Symantec, Mcafee Avert 
Labs, etc. The issue affects an ActiveX object in the RealPlayer component ierpplug.dll. RealPlayer 11 Beta, 10.5, and 
older versions are affected. 

Symantec and Mcafee have added detection of this exploit as Trojan.Reapall and Exploit-RealPlay.a. 

As while, Real Company issued a fix for this vulnerability in less than 24 hours.


Quotation
RealPlayer 10.5 and RealPlayer 11 beta users should install the following patch click here to address this security 
vulnerability that aims to cause buffer overflow that could provide the potential for an attacker to run arbitrary or 
malicious code on a user’s PC.  


More details: http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/191007_player/en/


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