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CVE-2010-0417

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in common/util/rlstate.cpp in Helix Player 1.0.6 and RealPlayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a RuleBook structure with a large number of rule-separator characters that trigger heap memory corruption.

Affected products

• RealNetworks Helix Player: 1.0.6
• RealNetworks Realplayer: all versions

References

• http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/common-cvs/2008-January/015484.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38450
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0094.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561860
• https://helixcommunity.org/viewcvs/common/util/rlstate.cpp?view=log#rev1.10
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11364
• http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/common-cvs/2008-January/015484.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38450
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0094.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561860
• https://helixcommunity.org/viewcvs/common/util/rlstate.cpp?view=log#rev1.10
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11364

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