Plug-in flaw leaves RealPlayer users open to attack

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Limited vulnerability. RP10 is okay.

If you have RealPlayer 10 Gold, you don't have a problem.

You have a problem if you installed RealPlayer 10 Beta or an earlier version, and then used it to play the rather unusual "Rich Text 3D" content. Then your player will have downloaded the component which has this problem, but I expect it will prompt you first. The nature of the problem, otherwise, was that if you subsequently visited a Web site containing a deliberately defective R3T document (which is not known actually to exist), then malicious code could run on your computer. You can correct this either by following instructions to remove the defective component, or by installing RealPlayer 10 Gold which automatically removes the defective component.

In other words, you're talking stupid talk.

...as if we aren't all running Windows Update to correct a ton of Microsoft critical flaws today /anyway./ I forget if Windows Media is included this month, but there's usually something.

Posted by: Robert Carnegie   Posted on: 04/14/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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