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CVE-2005-2052
Heap-based buffer overflow in vidplin.dll in RealPlayer 10 and 10.5 (6.0.12.1040 through 1069), RealOne Player v1 and v2, RealPlayer 8 and…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in vidplin.dll in RealPlayer 10 and 10.5 (6.0.12.1040 through 1069), RealOne Player v1 and v2, RealPlayer 8 and RealPlayer Enterprise allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an .avi file with a modified strf structure value.
Timeline
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By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
2
- 20050623 eEye Advisory - EEYEB-200505 - RealPlayer AVI Processing Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://service.real.com/help/faq/security/050623_player/EN/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-2054 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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