CVE-2005-2922 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2005-2922

Heap-based buffer overflow in the embedded player in multiple RealNetworks...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

realnetworks

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Affected Software

helix player, realone player, realplayer, rhapsody
Vulnerable Versions:
10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.0.5, 10.0.6, 0.288, 0.297, 1.0, 2.0, 8.0, 10.0.0.305, 10.0.0.331, 10.5, 10.5_6.0.12.1040, 10.5_6.0.12.1053, 10.5_6.0.12.1056, 10.5_6.0.12.1059, 10.5_6.0.12.1069, 10.5_6.0.12.1235, 3.0, 3.0_build_0.815

Timeline

Official Publish: March 23rd, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.