CVE-2012-3234 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-3234?

CVE-2012-3234 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Realnetworks Realplayer, published on 12 Sep 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

RealNetworks RealPlayer before 15.0.6.14, RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.5, and Mac RealPlayer before 12.0.1.1750 do not properly handle codec frame sizes in RealAudio files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Weakness: CWE-189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3234?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Realnetworks Realplayer, Realnetworks Realplayer Sp.

How do I fix CVE-2012-3234?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-3234 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-3234 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3234 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Realnetworks Realplayer

• CVE-2011-4244 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-4245 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-4246 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-4249 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-4250 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Realnetworks Realplayer vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-38jr-m6hg-2c25.