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RealPlayer, QuickTime Get Urgent Updates
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-04-03
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Fixes for both products emerged to counter threats against vulnerabilities in these popular multimedia applications.
Popular multimedia applications needed attention from engineers to correct flaws that could have led to exploitation.
Apple released QuickTime 7.4.5 for Windows and for its Mac OS X. Numerous critical problems that could have been exploited by opening a malicious movie presented the potential for arbitrary code execution on an affected system.
Windows XP and Vista users should see this update appear in the Apple Software Update. The criticality of the flaws merits immediate attention to updating QuickTime.
Security vendor Symantec said Real provided an updated Active X control after a zero-day exploit of the flaw began hitting the Internet on April Fools' Day.
"It appears that this vulnerability has been patched within RealPlayer version 11.0.2 (build 6.0.14.802), which is now available for download," Symantec noted. Left uncorrected, the flaw presented the typical code execution threat if exploited, or an application crash if the exploit attempt did not work.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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