CVE-2011-1525

critical
Published 2011-04-06 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in rvrender.dll in RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1 and 14.0.0 through 14.0.2, and RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.5, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted frame in an Internet Video Recording (IVR) file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17019 dos windows
Luigi Auriemma ยท 2011-03-21

RealPlayer 14.0.1.633 - Heap Overflow

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
realnetworksrealplayer{"endIncluding":"14.0.1.633"}
realnetworksrealplayer4
realnetworksrealplayer5
realnetworksrealplayer6
realnetworksrealplayer7
realnetworksrealplayer8
realnetworksrealplayer10.0
realnetworksrealplayer10.5
realnetworksrealplayer11.0
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.1
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.2
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.2.1744
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.2.2315
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.3
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.4
realnetworksrealplayer11.0.5
realnetworksrealplayer11.1
realnetworksrealplayer11.1.3
realnetworksrealplayer11_build_6.0.14.748
realnetworksrealplayer12.0.0.1444
realnetworksrealplayer12.0.0.1548
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.0
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.1
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.1.609

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.