CVE-2011-4252

critical
Published 2011-11-24 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

The RV10 codec in RealNetworks RealPlayer before 15.0.0 and Mac RealPlayer before 12.0.0.1703 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted sample height.

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
realnetworksrealplayer{"endIncluding":"12.0.0.1701"}
realnetworksrealplayer7.0
realnetworksrealplayer8.0
realnetworksrealplayer10.0
realnetworksrealplayer10.0.0.305
realnetworksrealplayer10.0.0.331
realnetworksrealplayer10.1
realnetworksrealplayer12.0.0.1569
realnetworksrealplayer4
realnetworksrealplayer5
realnetworksrealplayer6
realnetworksrealplayer7
realnetworksrealplayer8
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
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.1.633
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.2
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.3
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.4
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.5
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.6

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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

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