38544 : Apple QuickTime Movie File CTAB Handling Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
5	1110	over 4 years ago	about 1 year ago	3 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2007-09-14	2007-11-05	2007-11-05

Time to Patch
52 days

Description

A remote overflow exists in Apple QuickTime Player. The media player fails to provide adequate bounds checking on the color table atom contained in a movie resulting in a heap-based overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of confidentiality, integrity, and/or availability.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Patch / RCS
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.3 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Apple Computer, Inc.

QuickTime Player

7.1.6

References

Security Tracker: 1018894
CVE ID: 2007-4677 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 26338
Secunia Advisory ID: 27523
SCIP VulDB ID: 3443
ISS X-Force ID: 38283
Related OSVDB ID: 38545 38546 38547 38548 38549 38550
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-3723
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-11/0074.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00000.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306896
Other Advisory URL: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-065.html
US-CERT Cyber Security Alert: TA07-310A

Tools & Filters

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Credit

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-11-08 | Disagree?

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2007/11/06 12:34:38 | Permanent Link to "QuickTime 7.3"

from: Visible Procrastinations

QuickTime 7.3 Published November 6th, 2007 apple , patch , security 1 Comment QuickTime 7.3 addresses critical security issues - seven bugs squished in this release; QuickTime 7.3 * QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2007-2395 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10

2007/11/06 09:49:20 | CyTRAP Labs reminder - update Quicktime (iTunes)

from: CyTRAP Labs - Wincurity - smarter protection

CyTRAP Labs reminder - update Quicktime (iTunes) November 6th, 2007 Apple has issued an important security patch for Quicktime that fixes several critical vulnerabilities (Please click on the link, choose Login as guest - click on this link again and voila free access)

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