VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-2955

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

Use-after-free vulnerability 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, when an Embedded RealPlayer is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a modal dialog.

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
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.2
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.3
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.4
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.5

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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

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