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RealPlayer HTML Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 5 Jul 2013 09:52 Release Date: 5 Jul 2013 3895 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Clients - Audio & Video

TYPE: Audio & Video

A vulnerability has been identified in RealPlayer, which can be exploited by remote user to cause denial of service attack.  A remote user can create a specially crafted HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will cause the target user's application to consume excessive CPU resources and/or crash.

 

Note: Vendor patch is currently unavailable


Impact

  • Denial of Service

System / Technologies affected

  • RealPlayer version 16.0.2.32 and prior

Solutions

Note: Vendor patch is currently unavailable.

Workaround: Do not visit untrusted websites or follow untrusted links


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