Advisory Details

March 7th, 2007

Apple Quicktime UDTA Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-07-010
ZDI-CAN-093

CVE ID CVE-2007-0714
CVSS SCORE
AFFECTED VENDORS Apple
AFFECTED PRODUCTS Quicktime
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['4411']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Quicktime. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of forged size fields in user-defined data atoms (UDTA). By setting this field to an overly large value, an integer overflow occurs resulting in an exploitable heap overflow. Successful exploitation results in code execution under the context of the running user.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2006-08-14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2007-03-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Anonymous
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