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phelt

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OT - Real software hack vulnerability UPDATED
« on: November 26, 2002, 12:37:11 pm »

EDIT/UPDATE:
The patch available at the link below may not work after all. See this article:
RealPlayer security fix is faulty
And Jim's notes below are well worth consideration.
Hopefully everyone will just stop using Real ;)

For those folks with Real Player or RealOne on their systems, you might want to know about a security patch released by Real. The story and the patch are available here:
RealPlayer Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
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Re: OT - Real software hack vulnerability
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2002, 12:47:45 pm »

But be careful if you install anything that you don't install RealOne.  RealPlayer or RealJukebox work fine.  RealOne causes some problems.  Steals filetypes, blocks use of playback engine, etc.

Disable Active Starcenter in preferences.

A search here for RealPlayer will find links to older versions.
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