CVE-2003-0141

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The PNG deflate algorithm in RealOne Player 6.0.11.x and earlier, RealPlayer 8/RealPlayer Plus 8 6.0.9.584, and other versions allows remote attackers to corrupt the heap and overwrite arbitrary memory via a PNG graphic file format containing compressed data using fixed trees that contain the length values 286-287, which are treated as a very large length.

Affected products

RealNetworks Realone Enterprise Desktop: 6.0.11.774
RealNetworks Realone Player: 2.0, 6.0.10.505-gold, 6.0.11.818, 6.0.11.830, 6.0.11.841, 6.0.11.853 (+2)
RealNetworks Realplayer: 8.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0156.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104887465427579&w=2
http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=311&idxseccion=10
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/705761
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7177
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0156.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104887465427579&w=2
http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=311&idxseccion=10
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/705761
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7177

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