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HelixPlayer: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):HelixPlayer CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2710
Created:September 27, 2005 Updated:October 10, 2005
Description: A format string bug was discovered in the way HelixPlayer processes RealPix (.rp) files. It is possible for a malformed RealPix file to execute arbitrary code as the user running HelixPlayer.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:059 2005-10-10
Gentoo 200510-07 2005-10-07
Debian DSA-826-1 2005-09-29
Fedora FEDORA-2005-941 2005-09-27
Fedora FEDORA-2005-940 2005-09-27
Red Hat RHSA-2005:762-02 2005-09-27
Red Hat RHSA-2005:788-01 2005-09-27
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