CVE-2005-2710

Summary

CVECVE-2005-2710
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-09-27 20:03:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionFormat string vulnerability in Real HelixPlayer and RealPlayer 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) image handle or (2) timeformat attribute in a RealPix (.rp) or RealText (.rt) file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.1 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Realnetworks Helix Player All All All All
Application Realnetworks Realplayer 10.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
168078 – CAN-2005-2710 HelixPlayer Format String Flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityReason - RealNetworks RealPlayer/HelixPlayer RealPix Format String Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Secunia - Advisories - Helix Player Error Message Format String Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Gentoo update for realplayer / helixplayer af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- RealPlayer, Helix Player: Format string vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for helix-player af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-826-1 helix-player af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Vendor Advisory
marc.info af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Accenture | Let there be change af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.idefense.com Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - RealPlayer Error Message Format String Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
marc.info af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#361181 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Secunia - Advisories - SUSE update for realplayer af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Nothing found for Advisories 13 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.open-security.org Vendor Advisory
RealPlayer && HelixPlayer Remote Format String - CXSecurity.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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