CVE-2011-2948

critical
Published 2011-08-18 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1 and 14.0.0 through 14.0.5, RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.5, RealPlayer Enterprise 2.0 through 2.1.5, and Mac RealPlayer 12.0.0.1569 do not properly handle DEFINEFONT fields in SWF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a crafted 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.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
realnetworksrealplayer11.0
realnetworksrealplayer11.1
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.0
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.1
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.2
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.3
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.4
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.5
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.0.0
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.0.1
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.0.2
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.0.5
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.1
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.1.1
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.1.2
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.1.3
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.1.4
realnetworksrealplayer_sp1.1.5
realnetworksrealplayer2.0
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.2
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.3
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.4
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.5
realnetworksrealplayer12.0.0.1569

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.