openSUSE Security Update : RealPlayer (RealPlayer-906)

high Nessus Plugin ID 39902

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

RealPlayer 10 is vulnerable to a critical security problem in the flash plugin (CVE-2007-5400). Real does not provide updated binaries of RealPlayer 10 and SUSE is not allowed to ship RealPlayer 11.
Therefore this update disables the flash plugin by setting restrictive file system permissions.

Solution

Update the affected RealPlayer package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412630

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39902

File Name: suse_11_0_RealPlayer-090521.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:realplayer, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5400

CWE: 119