TPTI-07-07: Apple QuickTime STSD Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/advisory/TPTI-07-07 May 10, 2007 -- CVE ID: CVE-2007-0754 -- Affected Vendor: Apple -- Affected Products: QuickTime Player 7.x -- TippingPoint(TM) IPS Customer Protection: TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this vulnerability since January 31, 2006 by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 4109. 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 malformed Sample Table Sample Descriptor (STSD) atoms. Specifying a malicious atom size can result in an under allocated heap chunk and subsequently an exploitable heap corruption. -- Vendor Response: Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304357 -- Disclosure Timeline: 2006.06.16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2006.01.31 - Digital Vaccine released to TippingPoint customers 2007.05.10 - Coordinated public release of advisory -- Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by Ganesh Devarajan, TippingPoint DVLabs.