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QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1013 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Untrusted Java applets may obtain elevated privileges Description: An implementation issue in QuickTime for Java allows untrusted Java applets to deserialize objects provided by QTJava. Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted Java applet could allow the disclosure of sensitive information, or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. This update addresses the issue by disabling the ability of untrusted Java applets to deserialize QTJava objects. Credit to Adam Gowdiak for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1014 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Downloading a movie file may lead to information disclosure Description: Specially crafted QuickTime movies can automatically open external URLs, which may lead to information disclosure. This update addresses the issue through improved handling of external URLs embedded in movie files. Credit to Jorge Escala of Open Tech Solutions, and Vinoo Thomas and Rahul Mohandas of McAfee Avert Labs for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1015 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An issue in QuickTime's handling of data reference atoms may result in a buffer overflow. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of data reference atoms. Credit to Chris Ries of Carnegie Mellon University Computing Services for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1016 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue exists in QuickTime's handling of movie media tracks. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved validation of movie media tracks. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1017 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An issue in QuickTime's parsing of 'crgn' atoms may result in a heap buffer overflow. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking. Credit to Sanbin Li working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1018 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An issue in QuickTime's parsing of 'chan' atoms may result in a heap buffer overflow. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking. Credit to an anonymous researcher working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1019 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PICT image file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An issue in QuickTime's handling of PICT records may result in a heap buffer overflow. Viewing a maliciously crafted PICT image file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking. Credit to bugfree working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1020 Available for: Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PICT image file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An issue in QuickTime's handling of error messages during PICT images processing may result in a heap buffer overflow. Viewing a maliciously crafted PICT image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems. Credit to Ruben Santamarta of Reversemode.com working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1021 Available for: Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An issue in QuickTime's handling of Animation codec content may result in a heap buffer overflow. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file with Animation codec content may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems. Credit to an anonymous researcher working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1022 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted QuickTime VR movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An issue in QuickTime's parsing of 'obji' atoms may result in a stack buffer overflow. Viewing a maliciously crafted QuickTime VR movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking. Credit to an anonymous researcher working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1023 Available for: Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PICT image file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An issue in QuickTime's parsing of the Clip opcode may result in a heap buffer overflow. Viewing a maliciously crafted PICT image file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems. Credit to Wei Wang of McAfee AVERT labs, and David Wharton for reporting this issue. QuickTime CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1739 Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An issue in QuickTime's parsing of 'ftyp' atoms may result in memory corruption. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking. Credit to the Mu Security research team for reporting this issue.
QuickTime 7.4.5