Title: Apple QuickTime Compressed PICT Data Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
QuickTime Player is the media player distributed by Apple for QuickTime as well as other media files.
A remote buffer overflow vulnerability affects Apple QuickTime. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly bounds check user-supplied data prior to copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.
This issue presents itself when the application attempts to handle compressed PICT data. The destination memory buffer used during the decompression process may be overrun due to improper bounds checking.
An attacker may leverage this issue to cause the affected QuickTime client to crash, denying service to legitimate users. It has been speculated that this issue may also facilitate code execution; any code execution would occur with the privileges of the user that activated the affected software.
This issue affects both Microsoft Windows, and Apple versions of QuickTime.
Affected Products:
- Apple QuickTime Player 5.0.2
- Apple QuickTime Player 6
- Apple QuickTime Player 6.1.0
- Apple QuickTime Player 6.5.0
- Apple QuickTime Player 6.5.1
- Apple QuickTime Player 6.5.2
- Apple QuickTime Player 7.0.0
- Apple QuickTime Player 7.0.1
- Apple QuickTime Player 7.0.2
References:
- Apple: About the security content of QuickTime 7.0.3
- Apple: Apple QuickTime Homepage
- Apple: Apple Security Updates
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