Title: Apple Quicktime Plugin Remote Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Quicktime is Apple's proprietary multimedia playback technology.
A version of the Quicktime plugin for windows is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable buffer overflow.
Input from an HTML reference is improperly validated for length. As a result, an attacker may insert a maliciously-crafted EMBED tag in an HTML document. This tag, when clicked as a link by the vulnerable user, will supply excess data to the quicktime plugin invoked by the link, overflowing the local buffer.
As a result, excessive data copied onto the stack can overwrite critical parts of the stack frame such as the calling functions' return address. Since this data is supplied by the user it can be crafted so that it alters the program's flow of execution.
Affected Products:
- Apple Quicktime plugin - Windows 4.1.2 (Japanese)
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