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RealPlayer is the freely available Real Media format player. It is distributed and maintained by RealNetworks. A buffer overflow has been reported in the Real products. When one of the affected products is used to play a file with a name of excessively large length and one of two specific operations are performed in the in the "Now Playing" menu, the overflow occurs. This could result in the execution of arbitrary code embedded in the file name. ** Reports indicate that the patch for this issue supplied by Real Networks does not correct the problem.

RealPlayer is the freely available Real Media format player. It is distributed and maintained by RealNetworks. A buffer overflow has been reported in the Real products. When one of the affected products is used to play a file with a name of excessively large length and one of two specific operations are performed in the in the "Now Playing" menu, the overflow occurs. This could result in the execution of arbitrary code embedded in the file name. ** Reports indicate that the patch for this issue supplied by Real Networks does not correct the problem.