Apple QuickTime MPEG-4 movie buffer overflow

Overview

Apple QuickTime fails to properly handle MPEG-4 movie files. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition.

Description

Apple’s QuickTime Player is multimedia software that allows users to view local and remote audio, video, and image content. QuickTime contains a buffer overflow in the code that handles MPEG-4 movies. This vulnerability may be triggered by sending the QuickTime Player, or an application that uses the QuickTime plug-in, a specially crafted MPEG-4 movie file.

Note that this issue affects QuickTime installations on both Apple Mac and Windows operating systems.

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Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition.

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Solution

Upgrade
Apple has addressed this issue with QuickTime 7.1, as specified in Apple Support Document 303752.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: May 17, 2006

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

Refer to <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303752&gt;.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23587937 Feedback>).

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References

• <http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime71.html&gt;
• <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303752&gt;
• <http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/mpeg4/&gt;

Acknowledgements

This issue was reported in the Apple Support Document 303752.

This document was written by Jeff Gennari.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2006-1464
Severity Metric:	17.28 Date Public: