CVE-2010-0416
Helix Player and RealPlayer - Buffer Overflow via Malformed URL Percent Encoding
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2010-0416. PoCs published by gwright.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit demonstrates a buffer overflow vulnerability in Helix Player by providing a malformed URI with an excessively long format specifier (%.20000000s%). This can lead to remote code execution or denial-of-service conditions due to inadequate boundary checks.
Description
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.
Exploits (1)
The exploit demonstrates a buffer overflow vulnerability in Helix Player by providing a malformed URI with an excessively long format specifier (%.20000000s%). This can lead to remote code execution or denial-of-service conditions due to inadequate boundary checks.