SecurityReason - Apple QuickTime Uncompressedfile Opcode Stack Overflow Vulnerability

Advisory Text :

ZDI-07-068: Apple QuickTime Uncompressedfile Opcode Stack Overflow

Vulnerability

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-068.html

November 5, 2007

-- CVE ID:

CVE-2007-4672

-- Affected Vendor:

Apple

-- Affected Products:

QuickTime 7.2

-- 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 image file.

The specific flaw exists in the parsing of the pict file format. If an

invalid length is specified for the UncompressedQuickTimeData opcode, a

stack based buffer overflow occurs, allowing the execution of arbitrary

code.

-- 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=306896

-- Disclosure Timeline:

2007.09.14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor

2007.11.05 - Coordinated public release of advisory

-- Credit:

This vulnerability was discovered by Ruben Santamarta of reversemode.com.

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