Check Point Advisories

RealNetworks RealPlayer RealMedia File Format Processing Heap Corruption (CVE-2007-5081)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-344
Date Published: 17 Feb 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-5081
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description RealPlayer and RealOne Player are media player applications developed by RealNetworks, Inc. These applications are capable of playing back numerous multimedia file formats. The application can open media files from local file system or network servers. A remote heap corruption vulnerability exists in RealNetworks RealPlayer application. The vulnerability is due to boundary errors when processing RM files. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a crafted RM file. In an attack case where code injection is successful, the behavior of the target is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute within the security context of the current user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, if the affected RealPlayer or RealOne Player process will terminate abnormally.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the RealNetworks RealPlayer RealMedia File Format Processing Heap Corruption protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Media Player Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  RealNetworks RealPlayer RealMedia file format processing heap corruption

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