Critical flaw in Realplayer warns US-CERT
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Techrepublic,bbc
A warning concerning an unpatched vulnerability in RealPlayer and a flaw affecting Flash files has been issued by US-CERT.
This was issued after a Russian security company claimed to have found a way to exploit a critical flaw in the multimedia software.The flaw affects the latest version 11 of RealPlayer running on Windows XP, service pack 2 .
Evgeny Legerov, founder of Russian-based security firm, Gleg, announced a few details of the code. Legerov posted a brief announcement at the Dailydave security discussion board. In his post, Gleg links to a flash demonstration of the working code.
This was issued after a Russian security company claimed to have found a way to exploit a critical flaw in the multimedia software.The flaw affects the latest version 11 of RealPlayer running on Windows XP, service pack 2 .
Evgeny Legerov, founder of Russian-based security firm, Gleg, announced a few details of the code. Legerov posted a brief announcement at the Dailydave security discussion board. In his post, Gleg links to a flash demonstration of the working code.
