SecurityReason - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apple QuickTime

Advisory Text :

McAfee, Inc.

McAfee Avert(tm) Labs Security Advisory

Public Release Date: 2006-09-12

Apple QuickTime Multiple Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-4382, CVE-2006-4384, CVE-2006-4385, CVE-2006-4386,

CVE-2006-4388, CVE-2006-4389

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* Synopsis

Apple QuickTime is a multimedia technology used to process image, audio

and video data. QuickTime is used by the Mac OS X operating system and

by the QuickTime media player for Microsoft Windows.

Seven code execution vulnerabilities are present in QuickTime support

for various multimedia formats including: MOV, H.264, FLC, FPX and SGI.

Exploitation could lead to execution of arbitrary code. User interaction

is required for an attack to succeed.

The risk rating for these issues is medium.

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* Vulnerable Systems

QuickTime 7.1.2 and below for Mac OS X

QuickTime for Windows 7.1.2 and below

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* Vulnerability Information

CVE-2006-4382

Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities are present in QuickTime MOV format

support.

CVE-2006-4384

On heap overflow vulnerability is present in QuickTime FLC format

support.

CVE-2006-4385

One buffer overflow vulnerability is present in QuickTime SGI format

support.

CVE-2006-4386

One buffer overflow vulnerability is present in QuickTime MOV H.264

format support.

CVE-2006-4388

One buffer overflow vulnerability is present in QuickTime FlashPix (FPX)

format support.

CVE-2006-4389

One uninitialized memory access vulnerability is present in QuickTime

FlashPix (FPX) format support.

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* Resolution

Apple has included fixes for the QuickTime issues in QuickTime version

7.1.3 for Mac OS X and for Microsoft Windows.

Further information is available at:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304357

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* Credits

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Mike Price of McAfee Avert

Labs.

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Best regards,

Dave Marcus, B.A., CCNA, MCSE

Security Research and Communications Manager

McAfee(r) Avert(r) Labs