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Apple QuickTime Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA17428
Release Date: 2005-11-04
Last Update: 2005-11-09
Popularity: 28,055 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Apple Quicktime 6.x
Apple QuickTime 7.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2753
CVE-2005-2754
CVE-2005-2755
CVE-2005-2756


Description:
Piotr Bania has reported some vulnerabilities in Apple QuickTime, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially to compromise a user's system.

1) An integer overflow error exists in the handling of a "Pascal" style string when loading a ".mov" video file. This can result in memory overwrite due to a large memory copy, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution via a specially crafted video file.

2) An integer overflow error exists in the handling of certain movie attributes when loading a ".mov" video file. This can result in memory overwrite due to a large memory copy, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution via a specially crafted video file.

3) A NULL pointer dereferencing error exists when handling certain missing movie attributes from a video file. This may be exploited to crash an application that uses QuickTime when a specially crafted video file is loaded.

4) A boundary error exists in the QuickTime PictureViewer when decompressing PICT data. This may be exploited to cause a memory overwrite, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution via a specially crafted PICT picture file.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in the following versions:
* QuickTime version 6.5.2 and 7.0.1 for Mac OS X.
* QuickTime versions 7.x prior to 7.0.3 for Windows.

Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 7.0.3.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime703.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
Piotr Bania

Changelog:
2005-11-09: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.

Original Advisory:
Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302772

Piotr Bania:
http://pb.specialised.info/all/adv/quicktime-mov-io1-adv.txt
http://pb.specialised.info/all/adv/quicktime-mov-io2-adv.txt
http://pb.specialised.info/all/adv/quicktime-mov-dos-adv.txt
http://pb.specialised.info/all/adv/quicktime-pict-adv.txt

Other References:
US-CERT VU#855118:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/855118


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