Re: realplayer security vulnerability

2002-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Russo wrote: > Because the 'realplayer' package does not actually contain anything > substantial in it, rather it is an installer package -- frankly > there's no entirely satisfactory solution. postinst pseudo-code: if [ `md5sum /dir/file.so` ne "201de7b7acbc467846fc9cd11ff90266" ]; then

realplayer security vulnerability

2002-02-07 Thread Brian Russo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SUMMARY - --- There is (apparently) a security vulnerability in realplayer. Little detail is given by Real, presumably this is exploitable remotely by an unscrupulous stream operator. The file to upgrade is /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Plugins/rmffplin