38545 : Apple QuickTime VR Extension QTVR Movie Handling Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
6	1260	over 4 years ago	about 1 year ago	2 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2007-09-13	2007-09-13	2007-11-05	2008-06-13

Time to Patch
274 days

Description

A remote overflow exists in Apple QuickTime Player. The media player fails to check bounds on panorama sample atoms in QuickTime Virtual Reality movies resulting in a heap-based overflow. With a specially crafted movie file, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
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

7.2

References

Security Tracker: 1018894
CVE ID: 2007-4675 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 26342
Secunia Advisory ID: 27523
SCIP VulDB ID: 3442
ISS X-Force ID: 38282
Related OSVDB ID: 38544 38546 38547 38548 38549 38550
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-3723
Other Advisory URL: http://blog.48bits.com/?p=176
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=620
http://www.48bits.com/advisories/qt_pdat_heapbof.pdf
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306896
Mail List Post: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00000.html
US-CERT Cyber Security Alert: TA07-310A

Tools & Filters

Snort	13293
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Credit

Mario Ballano - iDefense Labs VCP

CVSSv2 Score

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

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