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Vulnerability Note VU#880561

Apple QuickTime movie heap buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview

The Apple QuickTime player contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or create a denial-of-service condition.

I. Description

Apple QuickTime contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running QuickTime. By convincing a user to open a specially crafted QuickTime movie file, an attacker can trigger the overflow.

Apple iTunes includes the QuickTime player.

Note that this vulnerability may be present in QuickTime versions prior to 7.1.5 running on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

II. Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary code or create a denial-of-service condition. The crafted QuickTime movie file may be supplied on a web page, in an email for the victim to select, or by some other means designed to encourage them to invoke QuickTime on the exploit file.

III. Solution

Apple has released QuickTime 7.1.5 to address this issue.

Do not allow browsers to open QuickTime automatically

Until updates can be applied, do not allow your web browser to open files associated with QuickTime automatically. Consult your web browser's documentation or the references section of this document for more information.

Do not open multimedia files from untrusted sources

Do not open multimedia files that are from untrusted or unknown sources. For more information, please see Using Caution with Email Attachments.

Limit privileges

Running QuickTime with reduced privileges may help mitigate the effects of this vulnerability. Users with administrator access can run QuickTime with reduced privileges by following the instructions in Microsoft knowledgebase article 294676.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
Apple Computer, Inc.Vulnerable6-Mar-2007

References


http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305149
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
http://secunia.com/advisories/24359/
http://www.auscert.org.au/7356
http://www.piotrbania.com/all/adv/quicktime-heap-adv-7.1.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mov
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-010.html
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q294676
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-171.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22827
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22843
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017725

Credit

Thanks to Apple for information that was used in this report. Apple in turn thanks Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs Piotr Bania, and Artur Ogloza.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public:2007-03-06
Date First Published:2007-03-06
Date Last Updated:2007-03-19
CERT Advisory: 
CVE-ID(s):CVE-2007-0713
NVD-ID(s):CVE-2007-0713
US-CERT Technical Alerts: 
Metric:6.64
Document Revision:18

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