QuickTime Player Vulnerabilities
Posted in Security by wayne.porter on June 10th, 2008 Your Apple QuickTime Player should be updated to version 7.5 right away due to the discovery of several vulnerabilities.
1) A boundary error when parsing packed scanlines from a PixData structure in a PICT file can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted PICT file.
2) An error in the processing of AAC-encoded media content can be exploited to cause a memory corruption via a specially crafted media file.
3) A boundary error in the processing of PICT files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted PICT file.
4) A boundary error in the processing of Indeo video codec content can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted movie file with Indeo video codec content.
5) An error in the handling of “file:” URLs can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary programs when playing specially crafted QuickTIme content in QuickTime Player.
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Original Advisory:
Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1991
Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/advisories/29293/
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