10561 : Apple QuickTime Player for Windows URL Handling Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
6	1562	about 9 years ago	over 3 years ago	1 times	90%

Timeline

Disclosure Date
2003-03-31

Time to Exploit
74 days

Description

A local overflow exists in Quicktime Player for Windows. The program fails to validate long quicktime:// URLs resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause the program to crash or execute arbitrary code resulting in a loss of integrity, and/or availability.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public

Solution

Upgrade to version 6.1 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Apple Inc.	QuickTime Player	5.x
		6.0

References

CERT VU: 112553
ISS X-Force ID: 11671
CVE ID: 2003-0168 (see also: NVD)
SCIP VulDB ID: 24
Bugtraq ID: 7247
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0166.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25631

Tools & Filters

	11506

Credit

Texonet - Texonet

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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