RealNetworks maintains a focused portfolio of media playback and streaming products—including RealPlayer, RealPlayer SP, RealOne Player, Helix Player, and Helix Server—that, despite a narrow product range, occupy a prominent position in the vulnerability landscape due to their historical ubiquity in media consumption and legacy deployment footprint. The vendor's disclosures frequently acquire public exploit code, reflecting the appeal of media software as a target for weaponization and the active interest in historical vulnerabilities across its installed base. Recurring weakness classes center on memory-safety and input-handling defects: buffer-boundary violations, code injection, and improper input validation are characteristic of the parsing and codec-handling complexity inherent to multimedia software. Defenders should assume legacy RealNetworks products remain embedded in enterprise media infrastructure and maintain awareness of the vendor's advisory history; current severity, exploitation activity, and exposure details are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Realnetworks over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (217 CVEs).
217 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2002-1643HIGH Multiple buffer overflows in RealNetworks Helix Universal Server 9.0 (9.0.2.768) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long Transport field in a SETUP RTSP req | Dec 19, 2002 | 7.5 | 80 | NO | YES |
CVE-2013-7260HIGH Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in RealNetworks RealPlayer before 17.0.4.61 on Windows, and Mac RealPlayer before 12.0.1.1738, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary cod | Jan 3, 2014 | 7.5 | 77 | NO | YES |
CVE-2012-5691HIGH Buffer overflow in RealNetworks RealPlayer before 16.0.0.282 and RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RealMedia file. | Dec 19, 2012 | 9.3 | 76 | NO | YES |
CVE-2010-1318HIGH Stack-based buffer overflow in the AgentX::receive_agentx function in AgentX++ 1.4.16, as used in RealNetworks Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server 11.x through 13.x and other prod | Apr 20, 2010 | 10.0 | 75 | NO | YES |
CVE-2008-1309HIGH The RealAudioObjects.RealAudio ActiveX control in rmoc3260.dll in RealNetworks RealPlayer Enterprise, RealPlayer 10, RealPlayer 10.5 before build 6.0.12.1675, and RealPlayer 11 bef | Mar 12, 2008 | 9.3 | 73 | NO | YES |
CVE-2010-3747HIGH An ActiveX control in RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1, RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.4, and RealPlayer Enterprise 2.1.2 does not properly initialize an unspecified object | Oct 19, 2010 | 9.3 | 69 | NO | YES |
CVE-2011-2950HIGH Heap-based buffer overflow in qcpfformat.dll in RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1 and 14.0.0 through 14.0.5 and RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to e | Aug 18, 2011 | 9.3 | 66 | NO | YES |
CVE-2007-5601HIGH Stack-based buffer overflow in the Database Component in MPAMedia.dll in RealNetworks RealPlayer 10.5 and 11 beta, and earlier versions including 10, RealOne Player, and RealOne Pl | Oct 20, 2007 | 9.3 | 65 | NO | YES |
CVE-2005-0455MEDIUM Stack-based buffer overflow in the CSmil1Parser::testAttributeFailed function in smlparse.cpp for RealNetworks RealPlayer 10.5 (6.0.12.1056 and earlier), 10, 8, and RealOne Player | May 2, 2005 | 5.1 | 60 | NO | YES |
CVE-2003-0725HIGH Buffer overflow in the RTSP protocol parser for the View Source plug-in (vsrcplin.so or vsrcplin3260.dll) for RealNetworks Helix Universal Server 9 and RealSystem Server 8, 7 and R | Oct 20, 2003 | 7.5 | 58 | NO | YES |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (217 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Realnetworks.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Realnetworks — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.