Serious New Flaws in Apple Quicktime | 7.1 Patch Details
The new version of Quicktime, v. 7.1, is available for both Microsoft Windows and Mac systems, and is downloadable here. Apple said the older versions contain security holes that attackers could use to break into both Windows and Mac machines running the software.
On May 11 Apple Computers released a patched version of it's Quicktime media player, fixing vulnerabilities affecting both the Mac and Windows versions of the player. A total of 43 serious flaws were patched with the release of Quicktime 7.1 (read about them in the extended comments). The company's Security Update 2006-003 patches 31 flaws in the Mac OS X, most of them serious enough to cause "arbitrary code execution attacks." Quicktime security release 7.1 also corrects 12 code execution and denial-of-service flaws.
The QuickTime bugs can allow a malicious hacker to launch successful attacks using different vectors; a specially crafted JPEG image; rigged QuickTime movies; specially created Flash, MPEG4 or H.264 movies; or maliciously crafted FlashPiX or BMP images.
The Mac OS X update also fixes code execution vulnerabilities in AppKit, ImageIO, BOM, CFNetwork, ClamAV, CoreFoundation, Finder, FTPServer, FlashPlayer, LaunchServices, libcurl, Preview, QuickDraw and QuickTime Streaming Server.
If you are looking for the Standalone version of QuickTime that does not include Apple iTunes you can download the newest version (with this latest security patch included) from this Apple link.
QuickTime 7.1 Update patches the following flaws:
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-1458
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted JPEG image may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution
Description: By carefully crafting a corrupt JPEG image, an attacker can trigger an integer overflow which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of JPEG images.
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-1459, CVE-2006-1460
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted QuickTime movie may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution
Description: By carefully crafting a corrupt QuickTime movie, an attacker can trigger an integer overflow or buffer overflow which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of QuickTime movies. Credit to Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs for reporting these issues.
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-1461
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted Flash movie may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution
Description: By carefully crafting a corrupt Flash movie, an attacker can trigger a buffer overflow which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of QuickTime movies. Credit to Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs for reporting this issue.
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-1462, CVE-2006-1463
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted H.264 movie may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution
Description: By carefully crafting a corrupt H.264 movie, an attacker can trigger an integer overflow or buffer overflow which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of H.264 movies. Credit to Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs and ATmaCA working through TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative for reporting these issues.
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-1464
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted MPEG4 movie may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution
Description: By carefully crafting a corrupt MPEG4 movie, an attacker can trigger a buffer overflow which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of MPEG4 movies. Credit to Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs for reporting this issue.
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-1249
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted FlashPix image may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution
Description: By carefully crafting a corrupt FlashPix image, an attacker can trigger an integer overflow which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of FlashPix images. Credit to eEye Digital Security and Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs for reporting these issues.
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-1465
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted AVI movie may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution
Description: By carefully crafting a corrupt AVI movie, an attacker can trigger a buffer overflow which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of AVI movies. Credit to Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs for reporting this issue.
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-1453, CVE-2006-1454
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted PICT image may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution
Description: Two issues affect QuickDraw when processing PICT images. Malformed font information may cause a stack buffer overflow, and malformed image data may cause a heap buffer overflow. By carefully crafting a malicious PICT image, an attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution when the image is viewed. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of PICT images. Credit to Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs for reporting these issues.
QuickTime
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-2238
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted BMP image may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution
Description: By carefully crafting a corrupt BMP image, an attacker can trigger a buffer overflow which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of BMP images.
This issue was originally identified in CVE-2006-1983, but a new CVE name was assigned.
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