CVE-2005-1766

Realplayer vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

4.1%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in rtffplin.cpp in RealPlayer 10.5 6.0.12.1056 on Windows, and 10, 10.0.1.436, and other versions before 10.0.5 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a RealMedia file with a long RealText string, such as an SMIL file.

Affected vendor

Realnetworks

Affected product

Realplayer

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2005-06-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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