Overview
RealNetwork's RealJukebox and RealONE Gold players are media applications that permit users to stream audio and video from local and internet sources. A vulnerability exists in the applications that could permit the execution of arbitrary code by a remote attacker.
Description
RealJukebox and RealONE Gold contain a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in the code that processes skin files. Skins permit users to customize the appearance of the player. This vulnerability can be triggered by the opening of a specially crafted skin file, or any document that has a skin file embedded in it. Examples of documents that could have skin files embedded are HTML formatted web pages, and email messages. According to the advisory released by RealNetworks, the following versions are vulnerable: |
Impact
A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the current user. |
Solution
RealNetworks has released a security advisory with patches to address this issue. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Our thanks to RealNetworks their analysis and reporting of this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jason A Rafail & Ian A. Finlay.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2002-1015 |
| Severity Metric: | 36.34 |
| Date Public: | 2002-07-10 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-07-16 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2002-07-22 14:13 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 19 |