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Red Hat alert RHSA-2010:0981-01 (HelixPlayer)

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Subject:  [RHSA-2010:0981-01] Critical: HelixPlayer removal
Date:  Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:06:41 -0500
Message-ID:  <201012142006.oBEK6Rns000683@int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Critical: HelixPlayer removal Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0981-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0981.html Issue date: 2010-12-14 CVE Names: CVE-2010-2997 CVE-2010-4375 CVE-2010-4378 CVE-2010-4379 CVE-2010-4382 CVE-2010-4383 CVE-2010-4384 CVE-2010-4385 CVE-2010-4386 CVE-2010-4392 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: Helix Player contains multiple security flaws and should no longer be used. This update removes the HelixPlayer package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ppc, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, x86_64 3. Description: Helix Player is a media player. Multiple security flaws were discovered in RealPlayer. Helix Player and RealPlayer share a common source code base; therefore, some of the flaws discovered in RealPlayer may also affect Helix Player. Some of these flaws could, when opening, viewing, or playing a malicious media file or stream, lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running Helix Player. (CVE-2010-2997, CVE-2010-4375, CVE-2010-4378, CVE-2010-4379, CVE-2010-4382, CVE-2010-4383, CVE-2010-4384, CVE-2010-4385, CVE-2010-4386, CVE-2010-4392) The Red Hat Security Response Team is unable to properly determine the impact or fix all of these issues in Helix Player, due to the source code for RealPlayer being unavailable. Due to the security concerns this update removes the HelixPlayer package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Users wishing to continue to use Helix Player should download it directly from https://player.helixcommunity.org/ 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 662772 - CVE-2010-4384 HelixPlayer multiple flaws (CVE-2010-2997, CVE-2010-4375, CVE-2010-4378, CVE-2010-4379, CVE-2010-4382, CVE-2010-4383, CVE-2010-4385, CVE-2010-4386, CVE-2010-4392) 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4AS/en/os/SRPMS/Helix... i386: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm ppc: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.ppc.rpm x86_64: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4Desktop/en/os/SRPMS/... i386: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm x86_64: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4ES/en/os/SRPMS/Helix... i386: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm x86_64: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4WS/en/os/SRPMS/Helix... i386: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm x86_64: HelixPlayer-uninstall-1.0.6-3.el4_8.1.i386.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package 7. References: https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-2997.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-4375.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-4378.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-4379.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-4382.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-4383.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-4384.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-4385.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-4386.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-4392.html https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification... https://player.helixcommunity.org/ 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact details at https://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2010 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFNB84bXlSAg2UNWIIRAurzAKC/eYDbV4KNsohBAZozNnjRVx/5OgCbBrwD k/QRneR3w4rm8HTzggXxlWQ= =BC1/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Enterprise-watch-list mailing list Enterprise-watch-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enterprise-watch-...


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