VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-7260

high
Published 2014-01-03 · 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
8.5

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in RealNetworks RealPlayer before 17.0.4.61 on Windows, and Mac RealPlayer before 12.0.1.1738, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) version number or (2) encoding declaration in the XML declaration of an RMP file, a different issue than CVE-2013-6877.

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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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

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

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

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/fileformat/realplayer_ver_attribute_bof rank 300
RealNetworks RealPlayer Version Attribute Buffer Overflow
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
realnetworksrealplayer{"endIncluding":"17.0.4.60"}
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.2
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.3
realnetworksrealplayer2.1.4
realnetworksrealplayer4
realnetworksrealplayer5
realnetworksrealplayer6
realnetworksrealplayer7
realnetworksrealplayer8
realnetworksrealplayer10.0
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
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.2
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.3
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.4
realnetworksrealplayer14.0.5
realnetworksrealplayer15.0.0
realnetworksrealplayer15.0.4
realnetworksrealplayer15.0.4.43
realnetworksrealplayer15.0.5.109
realnetworksrealplayer15.0.6.14
realnetworksrealplayer15.02.71
realnetworksrealplayer16.0.0
realnetworksrealplayer16.0.0.282
realnetworksrealplayer16.0.1.18
realnetworksrealplayer16.0.2.32
realnetworksrealplayer16.0.3.51
realnetworksrealplayer10.1
realnetworksrealplayer12.0.0.1701
realnetworksrealplayer12.0.1.1737

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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