RealNetworks RealOne Player/RealPlayer SMIL File Remote Stack Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:12698

Info

RealNetworks RealOne Player/RealPlayer SMIL File Remote Stack Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12698
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2005-0455
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 01 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 10:56AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to an anonymous researcher.
Vulnerable: Redhat Fedora Core3
RealNetworks RealPlayer For Unix 10.0.3
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
RealNetworks RealPlayer Enterprise 1.6
RealNetworks RealPlayer Enterprise 1.5
RealNetworks RealPlayer Enterprise 1.2
RealNetworks RealPlayer Enterprise 1.1
RealNetworks RealPlayer Enterprise
RealNetworks RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS
RealNetworks RealPlayer 10 for Linux
RealNetworks RealPlayer 10.5 v6.0.12.1056
RealNetworks RealPlayer 10.5 v6.0.12.1053
RealNetworks RealPlayer 10.5 v6.0.12.1040
RealNetworks RealPlayer 10.0
+ S.u.S.E. cvsup-16.1h-43.i586.rpm
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
RealNetworks RealPlayer 8.0 Win32
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 98 SP1
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows XP Home
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
RealNetworks RealOne Player for OSX 9.0 .297
RealNetworks RealOne Player for OSX 9.0 .288
RealNetworks RealOne Player 6.0.11 .872
RealNetworks RealOne Player 6.0.11 .868
RealNetworks RealOne Player 6.0.11 .853
RealNetworks RealOne Player 6.0.11 .841
RealNetworks RealOne Player 6.0.11 .840
RealNetworks RealOne Player 6.0.11 .830
RealNetworks RealOne Player 6.0.11 .818
RealNetworks RealOne Player 1.0
RealNetworks Helix Player for Linux 1.0
Not Vulnerable: RealNetworks RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS 10.0 .0.331
RealNetworks RealPlayer 10.5 v6.0.12.1059

Discussion

RealNetworks RealOne Player/RealPlayer SMIL File Remote Stack Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

RealNetworks RealPlayer and RealOne Player are reported prone to a remote stack based buffer overflow vulnerability. The issue exists due to a lack of boundary checks performed by the application when parsing Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) files. A remote attacker may execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable computer to gain unauthorized access.

This vulnerability is reported to exist in RealNetworks products for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Mac platforms.

Exploit / POC

RealNetworks RealOne Player/RealPlayer SMIL File Remote Stack Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following proof of concept was supplied:

The following line must be added in an appropriate section of a SMIL file:
<text src="1024_768.en.txt" region="size" system-screen-
size="LONGSTRINGX768">

where "LONGSTRING" should be more than 256 bytes.

The following proof of concept has been released by nolimit@ciso and Buzzdee:

Solution / Fix

RealNetworks RealOne Player/RealPlayer SMIL File Remote Stack Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
RedHat Fedora Linux has made an advisory (FEDORA-2005-188) available dealing with this issue in their Core 3 distribution. Please see the reference section for more information.

SuSE has released advisory SUSE-SA:2005:014 to address this issue. Please see the attached advisory for details on obtaining and applying fixes.

The vendor has released updates dealing with this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information on obtaining the updated packages.


RealNetworks Helix Player for Linux 1.0

RealNetworks RealPlayer For Unix 10.0.3

References

RealNetworks RealOne Player/RealPlayer SMIL File Remote Stack Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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