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Quicktime Two Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13005
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Release Date:
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2004-10-28
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Last Update:
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2005-09-09
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Apple Quicktime 6.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0926 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2004-0988 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in QuickTime, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) An unspecified integer overflow can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on a user's system via a specially crafted HTML document.
This vulnerability only affects Windows systems.
2) A boundary error within the decoding of BMP images can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on a user's system.
This vulnerability affects both Windows and Mac OS X systems. However, it has been fixed priorly in Security Update 2004-09-30 for Mac OS X.
Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, using the Network Software Inspector.
Solution:
Update to version 6.5.2.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime652forwindows.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) John Heasman of NGSSoftware
Changelog:
2004-10-29: Updated download link.
2004-11-03: Vendor updates link again.
2005-09-09: Updated download link.
Other References:
SA12690:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12690/
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6 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. Apple QuickTime Java Extension "toQTPointer()" Code Execution
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2. QuickTime Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities
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3. QuickTime Multiple Image/Media File Handling Vulnerabilities
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4. Apple QuickTime Multiple Vulnerabilities
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5. Apple QuickTime "QuickTime.qts" Heap Overflow Vulnerability
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6. Apple QuickTime Player remotely exploitable buffer overflow
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