OSVDB ID: 40876

Title: Apple QuickTime RTSP Content-Type Header Processing Overflow

Info

Disclosure

Nov 23, 2007

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Dec 13, 2007

Description

A buffer overflow exists in Quicktime. Quicktime fails to validate RTSP stream Content-Type headers resulting in a stack overflow. With a specially crafted RTSP stream, a context-dependent attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Commercial
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Uncoordinated Disclosure

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.3.1 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Apple Inc.

QuickTime

7.3

References

Credit

  • Krystian Kloskowski -


Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/40876