On January 17th, 2002, a security exploit affecting RealPlayer 8 was
brought to the attention of RealNetworks. The specific exploit, commonly
known as a "buffer overrun", could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code
on a victim's machine.

We have not yet received reports of anyone actually being attacked with
this exploit, however, a fix will be made available by end of day Friday
via the RealPlayer AutoUpdate Service, and for Enterprise RealPlayer users
at: http://www.service.real.com/help/faq/security/index.html.

RealNetworks would like to thank Tim Morgan for reporting this issue to us
and working with us to protect customers from unauthorized access to
sensitive or proprietary information.

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