ZDI-07-065: Apple QuickTime Color Table RGB Parsing Heap
Corruption
Vulnerability
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-06
5.html
November 5, 2007
-- CVE ID:
CVE-2007-4677
-- Affected Vendor:
Apple
-- Affected Products:
QuickTime 7.2
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-- 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 file.
The specific flaw exists in the parsing of the CTAB atom.
While reading
the CTAB RGB values, an invalid color table size can cause
QuickTime to
write past the end of the heap chunk. This memory corruption
can lead
to 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
and
Mario Ballano of 48bits.com.
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