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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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