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07/28/2008, 11:00am, EDT

Monday, July 28th

Real patches critical RealPlayer vulnerabilities

Real has fixed four "highly critical" security issues spread across the Mac, Windows and Linux versions of RealPlayer, according to a Secunia report. While two of the vulnerabilities are Windows-only, in that they relate to ActiveX controls, at least one is known to be universal. In this a design flaw is said to exist within the handling of frames in Shockwave Flash files, which in an unpatched copy of the software, could be used to create a heap-based buffer overflow.

The last vulnerability is described only as an "unspecified error," which could be used to "reference local resources." Affected Mac versions of RealPlayer include v10 and v10.1; both Secunia and Real recommend upgrading to v11 to solve the problem.


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07/28, 1:03pm, EDT

What is Real Player?

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Real is a commercial company that produced proprietary formats for audio and video content on the Internet. It is a longtime competitor for QuickTime and Windows Media in the area of Internet-based media content. You may find its website here:

http://www.real.com/

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