CVE-2013-6877

critical
Published 2013-12-19 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in RealNetworks RealPlayer before 17.0.4.61 on Windows, and Mac RealPlayer before 12.0.1.1738, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the TRACKID element of an RMP file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-7260.

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.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-30468 local windows verified
Gabor Seljan ยท 2013-12-24

RealNetworks RealPlayer 16.0.3.51/16.0.2.32 - '.rmp' Version Attribute Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
realnetworksrealplayer16.0.2.32
realnetworksrealplayer16.0.3.51

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.