Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple QuickTime, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by memory corruption and implementation errors when processing specially crafted PICT images, AAC-encoded or Indeo video codec media contents, and "file:" URLs, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application, launch arbitrary applications and files on a vulnerable system, or execute malicious code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page or opening a malformed file.

Affected Products

Apple QuickTime versions prior to 7.5

Solution

Upgrade to Apple QuickTime version 7.5 :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1776
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1991

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Dyon Balding (Secunia Research), Dave Soldera (NGS Software), Jens Alfke, Liam O Murchu (Symantec), ZDI, Vinoo Thomas and Rahul Mohandas (McAfee Avert Labs) and Petko D. (pdp) Petkov (GNUCITIZEN).

ChangeLog

2008-06-10 : Initial release

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