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Apple QuickTime Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (Windows)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Buffer overflow

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is running Apple QuickTime and is prone to multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

Insight

Insight

The flaws are due to - a buffer overflow error, when handling pict files. - heap buffer overflow error, when handling 'GIF' images and 'STSC', 'STSS', 'STSZ' and 'STTS' atoms in QuickTime movie files. - multiple stack buffer overflows existed in the handling of 'H.264' encoded movie files. - stack buffer overflow existed in the QuickTime ActiveX control's handling of 'QTL' files. - an integer overflow existed in the handling of track run atoms in QuickTime movie files. - improper bounds checking when handling 'mp4v' codec information.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Apple QuickTime version prior to 7.7

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to Apple QuickTime version 7.7 or later