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CVE-2010-0416 (GCVE-0-2010-0416)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-02-18 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:45
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Summary
Buffer overflow in the Unescape function in common/util/hxurl.cpp and player/hxclientkit/src/CHXClientSink.cpp in Helix Player 1.0.6 and RealPlayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a URL argument containing a % (percent) character that is not followed by two hex digits.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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Date Public
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