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Apple QuickTime H.264 Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-06-015: May 11th, 2006

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Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple's QuickTime media player.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of H.264 content. The implicit trust of a user-supplied size value during a memory copy loop allows an attacker to create an exploitable memory corruption condition. Exploitation requires that an attacker either coerce the target to open a malformed media file or visit a website embedding the malicious file.

Vendor Response

Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:

Disclosure Timeline

    2006-03-20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2006-05-11 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    ATmaCA