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Microsoft DirectShow QuickTime Parsing Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA35268
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Release Date: 2009-05-29
Last Update: 2009-07-15
Popularity: 8,811 views

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

OS:Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Software:Microsoft DirectX 7.x
Microsoft DirectX 8.x
Microsoft DirectX 9.x
Binary Analysis: BA793 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA757 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA791 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft DirectX, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An error in quartz.dll when processing QuickTime media files can be exploited to corrupt memory by writing a single NULL-byte to an arbitrary memory location.

NOTE: According to Microsoft, the vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

2) An input validation error in quartz.dll when updating a pointer during parsing of an certain atom's NumberOfEntries field in a QuickTime media files can be exploited to corrupt memory.

3) An input validation error in quartz.dll when parsing certain atom length records in QuickTime media files can be exploited to corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code.

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