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Posted on 14 September 2006
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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
