Advisory Details

November 5th, 2007

Apple QuickTime Color Table RGB Parsing Heap Corruption Vulnerability

ZDI-07-065
ZDI-CAN-239

CVE ID CVE-2007-4677
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 ['5610']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

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

The specific flaw exists in the parsing of the CTAB atom. While reading the CTAB RGB values, an invalid color table size can cause QuickTime to write past the end of the heap chunk. This memory corruption can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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=306896
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2007-09-14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2007-11-05 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Ruben Santamarta of reversemode.com and Mario Ballano of 48bits.com
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