gHacks technology news » real player http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Real Player Internet Explorer vulnerability http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/real-player-internet-explorer-vulnerability/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/real-player-internet-explorer-vulnerability/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:32:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/13/real-player-internet-explorer-vulnerability/ Internet Explorer with an installed version of Real Player beware. A vulnerability has been discovered recently which could allow remote code execution. According to Zdnet users should either switch browsers for the time until an patch is released or disabling killbits for two Active X classes. They forgot to mention the third option which would be to uninstall Real Player (temporarily).

Affected are all Real Player versions running under Internet Explorer. Microsoft has an article up that explains Killbits and what they do. They basically prevent Active X controls from being loaded in Internet Explorer. I still would recommend to either switch to Firefox or Opera temporarily or uninstall Real Player for the time until a security patch has been created.

Researcher Elazar Broad has posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list a so-called heap overflow vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to modify heap blocks after they are freed and overwrite certain registers.

The killbits that should be disabled are the following:

  • 2F542A2E-EDC9-4BF7-8CB1-87C9919F7F93
  • CFCDAA03-8BE4-11CF-B84B-0020AFBBCCFA

This will definitely have the effect that some Real Player functions will stop working properly.

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Real Alternative is able to play all media files that the Real Player is able to play including streaming content and content on websites. Quicktime Alternative has the same functionality as Apples Quicktime software as well. What makes both alternatives great is that they do not have background processes running and that there is no advertisement, no registration or other annonying things going on.

Both players tend to use lower ressources than the original players which is great if you are using a computer that is not running on the latest hardware. I suggest to uninstall the original players and install the alternative versions because of those reasons. Quicktime Alternative is also working with iTunes if you install those tools in a certain order. First Quicktime Alternative, then iTunes + Quicktime, uninstall Quicktime, install Quicktime Alternative.

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