National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4904
Original release date:09/17/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
RealNetworks RealPlayer 10.1.0.3114 and earlier, and Helix Player 1.0.6.778 on Fedora Core 6 (FC6) and possibly other platforms, allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed .au file that triggers a divide-by-zero error.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/18/2007)
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We do not consider a crash of a client application such as RealPlayer or Helix Player to be a security issue.
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External Source: BID
Name: 25627
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 39904
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20070911 RealPlayer/HelixPlayer .au Divide-By-Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability
External Source: XF
Name: realplayer-helixplayer-au-dos(36545)
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070911 RealPlayer/HelixPlayer .au Divide-By-Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability