ZDI-06-015: Apple QuickTime H.264 Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability

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ZDI-06-015: Apple QuickTime H.264 Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-015.html
May 11, 2006

-- CVE ID:
CVE-2006-1463

-- Affected Vendor:
Apple

-- Affected Products:
Apple QuickTime versions prior to 7.1

-- TippingPoint(TM) IPS Customer Protection:
TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this
vulnerability since March 20, 2006 by Digital Vaccine protection
filter ID 4183. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:

    http://www.tippingpoint.com

-- 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 identified and corrected this issue in QuickTime 7.1.
Customers can obtain the fix from Apple's Software Downloads web site:

    http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

For further details see:

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

-- Disclosure Timeline:
2006.03.20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2006.03.20 - Digital Vaccine released to TippingPoint customers
2006.05.11 - Coordinated public release of advisory

-- Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by ATmaCA.

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