Security patches issued for RealPlayers
C|Net | at | by Mike
RealNetworks has released patches for its audio-video players in an effort to prevent attacks via buffer overflows. RealNetwork's patches, released Tuesday, address vulnerabilities in the software that could allow an attacker to run arbitrary or malicious code on a person's computer when a malicious WAV or SMIL file is processed. Secunia, a security information company, rated the vulnerabilities as critical.
The company released updates for flaws in the Mac RealPlayer 10 and for several Windows players, including RealPlayer 10.5, RealPlayer 10, RealPlayer Enterprise and certain versions of RealOne Player v2.