CVE-2009-4242 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the CGIFCodec::GetPacketBuffer function in datatype/image/gif/common/gifcodec.cpp in RealNetworks RealPlayer 10; RealPlayer 10.5 6.0.12.1040 through 6.0.12.1741; RealPlayer 11 11.0.0 through 11.0.4; RealPlayer Enterprise; Mac RealPlayer 10 10.1 and 11.0; Linux RealPlayer 10; and Helix Player 10.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a GIF file with crafted chunk sizes that trigger improper memory allocation.

Reference

http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/datatype-cvs/2008-September/008633.html http://osvdb.org/61966 http://secunia.com/advisories/38218 http://secunia.com/advisories/38450 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023489 http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/01192010_player/en/ http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0094.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509096/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37880 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0178 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-006/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561436 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55795 https://helixcommunity.org/viewcvs/datatype/image/gif/common/gifcodec.cpp?view=logrev1.8 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10144