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CVE-2005-2922
Heap-based buffer overflow in the embedded player in multiple RealNetworks products and versions including RealPlayer 10.x, RealOne…
High9.3EPSS 5.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the embedded player in multiple RealNetworks products and versions including RealPlayer 10.x, RealOne Player, and Helix Player allows remote malicious servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a chunked Transfer-Encoding HTTP response in which either (1) the chunk header length is specified as -1, (2) the chunk header with a length that is less than the actual amount of sent data, or (3) a missing chunk header.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.8% · top 6.9% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- http://www.service.real.com/realplayer/security/03162006_player/en/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 19358 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11444 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1057 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1015808 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:788 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- realnetworks-chunked-transferencoding-bo(25409) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 19365 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 17202 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#172489 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:762 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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