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CVE-2005-2922

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2922 describes a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting RealNetworks products, including RealPlayer 10.x, RealOne Player, and Helix Player. This flaw allows remote malicious servers to trigger a denial of service (crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code by manipulating chunked Transfer-Encoding HTTP responses. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a medium attack complexity, but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_player:10.0:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_player:10.0.1:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_player:10.0.2:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_player:10.0.3:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_player:10.0.4:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0578 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Desktop version 3 Extras
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: HelixPlayer-1:1.0.6-0.EL4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2922Critical

security flaw

Mar 22, 2006

References

secunia.com / advisories/19358
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19365
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25409
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11444
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/172489
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_18_realplayer.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-762.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-788.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/17202
Exploit
service.real.com / realplayer/security/03162006_player/en
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1057
Vendor Advisory