VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-2949

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

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1 and 14.0.0 through 14.0.5, RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.5, and RealPlayer Enterprise 2.0 through 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted ID3v2 tags in an MP3 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.

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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

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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