VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-4255

critical
Published 2011-11-24 · 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
10.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in RealNetworks RealPlayer before 15.0.0 and Mac RealPlayer before 12.0.0.1703 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid codec name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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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

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

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