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Apple QuickTime Player remotely exploitable buffer overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA8464
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Release Date:
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2003-04-01
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Popularity:
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8,806 views
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Critical:
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Moderately 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 5.x
Apple Quicktime 6.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2003-0168
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Description:
Apple QuickTime Player has been found vulnerable to a buffer overflow.
QuickTime Player fails to handle long URLs. By supplying an URL longer than 400 characters a buffer overflow is caused. This buffer overflow could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.
It is possible to exploit this via a web page or HTML email by supplying a "quicktime://" URL.
Only QuickTime Player on Windows has been found vulnerable.
Solution:
Apple QuickTime Player 6.1 is not vulnerable.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Provided and/or discovered by:
Discovered by Texonet
Published by iDEFENSE
Original Advisory:
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/03.31.03.txt
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