ID

VAR-201012-0015

CVE

CVE-2010-0125

TITLE

RealNetworks RealPlayer of AAC Vulnerability in spectral data analysis processing

DESCRIPTION

RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1, RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.4, RealPlayer Enterprise 2.1.2, and Mac RealPlayer 11.0 through 12.0.0.1444 do not properly parse spectral data in AAC files, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors. Real Networks RealPlayer is prone to a memory corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application. NOTE: This issue was previously discussed in BID 45327 (Real Networks RealPlayer Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities) but has been given its own record to better document it. RealPlayer is a software package released and maintained by Real Networks, which can be used to play multimedia files encoded in Real Media format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Secure your corporate defenses and reduce complexity in handling vulnerability threats with the new Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM). Request a free trial: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/vim/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: RealPlayer Multiple Vulnerabilities SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA38550 VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/38550/ Customer Area (Credentials Required) https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=38550 RELEASE DATE: 2010-12-12 DISCUSS ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/38550/#comments AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Last Update * Popularity * Comments * Criticality Level * Impact * Where * Solution Status * Operating System / Software * CVE Reference(s) http://secunia.com/advisories/38550/ ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Authentication Level * Report Reliability * Secunia PoC * Secunia Analysis * Systems Affected * Approve Distribution * Remediation Status * Secunia CVSS Score * CVSS https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=38550 ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI: * AUTOMATED SCANNING http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/ DESCRIPTION: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in RealPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1) An error exists when parsing RealAudio content encoded using the "cook" codec. This can be exploited to trigger the use of uninitialised memory and potentially cause a memory corruption via e.g. a specially crafted RealMedia file. 2) An error in the handling of errors encountered while decoding "cook"-encoded audio content can be exploited to trigger the use of uninitialised memory and potentially free an arbitrary address. 3) An error in the parsing of AAC audio content can be exploited to corrupt memory via specially crafted spectral data. 4) An array indexing error when parsing Media Properties Header (MDPR) in a RealMedia file can be exploited to corrupt memory. 5) An input validation error when parsing a RealMedia file can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted multi-rate audio stream. 6) An error in the processing of the "StreamTitle" tag in a SHOUTcast stream using the ICY protocol can be exploited to cause an allocation failure for heap memory, which can result in the usage of freed pointers. 7) An integer overflow error when parsing a MLLT atom in an .AAC file can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. 8) An input validation error in the "pnen3260.dll" module in the parsing of TIT2 atoms within AAC files can be exploited to corrupt memory. 9) An integer overflow in the parsing of GIF87a files over the streaming protocol RTSP can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a large "Screen Width" size in the "Screen Descriptor" header. 10) An error in the parsing of audio codec information in a Real Audio media file can be exploited to to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a large number of subbands. 11) An input validation error in drv2.dll when decompressing RV20 video streams can be exploited to corrupt heap memory. 12) An unspecified error related to "SIPR" parsing can be exploited to corrupt heap memory. 13) An unspecified error related to "SOUND" processing can be exploited to corrupt heap memory. 14) An unspecified error related to "AAC" processing can be exploited to corrupt heap memory. 15) An unspecified error related to "RealMedia" processing can be exploited to corrupt heap memory. 16) An unspecified error related to "RA5" processing can be exploited to corrupt heap memory. 17) An integer overflow in "drv1.dll" when parsing SIPR stream metadata can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow, e.g. via the RealPlayer ActiveX control. 18) An input validation error in the processing of RealMedia files can be exploited to corrupt heap memory. 19) An input validation error in the RealAudio codec when processing RealMedia files can be exploited to corrupt heap memory. 20) An error in the "HandleAction" method in the RealPlayer ActiveX control allows users to download and execute scripts in the "Local Zone". 21) Input sanitisation errors in the "Custsupport.html", "Main.html", and "Upsell.htm" components can be exploited to inject arbitrary code into the RealOneActiveXObject process and load unsafe controls. 22) A boundary error in the parsing of cook-specific data used for initialization can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow. 23) An error in the parsing of MLTI chunks when processing Internet Video Recording (.ivr) files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via an invalid size for an embedded MDPR chunk. 24) An error in the parsing of MLTI chunks when processing Internet Video Recording (.ivr) files can be exploited to corrupt heap memory via an invalid number streams within the chunk. 25) An input validation error when parsing the RMX file format can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow. 26) An error when decoding data for particular mime types within a RealMedia file can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow. 27) An error in the parsing of server headers can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via an image tag pointing to a malicious server, which causes the player to fetch a remote file. 28) An error in the implementation of the Advanced Audio Coding compression when decoding a conditional component of a data block within an AAC frame can be exploited to corrupt memory. Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to RealPlayer 14.0.0 or later. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: 1, 2) Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research. 3) Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research. 4) Anonymous and Hossein Lotfi, reported via ZDI. 5 - 11, 20, 21) Anonymous, reported via ZDI. 12 - 14) The vendor credits Nicolas Joly, Vupen 15) The vendor credits Chaouki Bekrar, Vupen 17) Aaron Portnoy, Zef Cekaj, and Logan Brown of TippingPoint DVLabs 18, 19) Omair, reported via iDefense. 22, 28) Damian Put, reported via ZDI. 23, 24) Aaron Portnoy and Logan Brown of TippingPoint DVLabs and Team lollersk8erz. 25) Sebastian Apelt, reported via ZDI. 26) Sebastian Apelt and Andreas Schmidt, reported via ZDI. 27) AbdulAziz Hariri, reported via ZDI. ORIGINAL ADVISORY: Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-9/ http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-14/ http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-15/ RealNetworks: http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/12102010_player/en/ http://realnetworksblog.com/?p=2216 ZDI: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-268/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-266/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-270/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-273/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-269/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-271/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-272/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-274/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-275/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-276/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-277/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-278/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-279/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-281/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-280/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-282/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-267/ TippingPoint DVLabs: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-12/0216.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-12/0212.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-12/0213.html iDefense Labs: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=883 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=884 OTHER REFERENCES: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ DEEP LINKS: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED DESCRIPTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED SOLUTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXPLOIT: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. 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Product Link: http://www.real.com/realplayer/ ====================================================================== 4) Description of Vulnerability Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in RealPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. ====================================================================== 6) Time Table 01/03/2010 - Vendor notified. 01/03/2010 - Vendor response. 11/03/2010 - Vendor provides status update. 19/10/2010 - Vendor provides status update. 29/11/2010 - Vendor provides status update. 10/12/2010 - Public disclosure. ====================================================================== 8) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned CVE-2010-0125 for the vulnerability. ====================================================================== 9) About Secunia Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence relevant to their specific system configuration: http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/ Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory database as a service to the security community and private individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security. http://secunia.com/advisories/ Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the security and reliability of software in general: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. 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remote

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permissions and access control

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CREDITS

Carsten Eiram of Secunia Research.

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2025-04-11T22:50:19.210000+00:00

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