Real Player Security Vulnerability

In its recent study, Symantec stated that the present versions of the most popular media player “The Real Player” is vulnerable to attackers. According to them, the attackers can write a simple Active X code to modify the source of Intel’s CPU, as a result, taking total control of your machine. This code is injected into your computer when you visit a web site which contains malicious codes. This vulnerability was also noticed in the latest Beta version of Real player which is Real Player 11.

Soon after getting to know about this vulnerability, Real Networks released a latest patch to fix this. According to them, this new patch released on October 19th is set to fix this vulnerability with its Player. Real Networks also stated that, Real player 8 is not effected with this vulnerability and also there is a news that this vulnerability is only with Real Player running on Windows platform and not on Mac and linux operating systems. So go ahead and install this update from Real Networks Customer Support SiteRead in detail about this news on Symantec's Security Blog.