CVE-2005-2922 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2922 at MITRE

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the embedded player in multiple RealNetworks products and versions including RealPlayer 10.x, RealOne Player, and Helix Player allows remote malicious servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a chunked Transfer-Encoding HTTP response in which either (1) the chunk header length is specified as -1, (2) the chunk header with a length that is less than the actual amount of sent data, or (3) a missing chunk header.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 142764 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:018, published Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:55:35 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:42 2025