CVE-2006-6847: Realnetworks Realplayer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An ActiveX control in ierpplug.dll for RealNetworks RealPlayer 10.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer 7 crash) by invoking the RealPlayer.OpenURLInPlayerBrowser method with a long second argument.

Affected products

  • Realnetworks Realplayer: version 10.5 only; version 10.5_6.0.12.1016_beta only; version 10.5_6.0.12.1040 only; version 10.5_6.0.12.1053 only; version 10.5_6.0.12.1056 only; version 10.5_6.0.12.1059 only; …

Published 2006-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.