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About the security content of QuickTime 7.7.1

This document describes the security content of QuickTime 7.7.1.

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QuickTime 7.7.1

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: a buffer overflow existed in QuickTime’s handling of H.264 encoded movie files. For OS X Lion systems, this issue is addressed in OS X Lion v10.7.2. For Mac OS X v10.6 systems, this issue is addressed in Security Update 2011-006.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3219: Damian Put working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to the disclosure of memory contents

    Description: an uninitialised memory access issue existed in QuickTime’s handling of URL data handlers within movie files. For OS X Lion systems, this issue is addressed in OS X Lion v10.7.2. For Mac OS X v10.6 systems, this issue is addressed in Security Update 2011-006.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3220: Luigi Auriemma working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: an implementation issue existed in QuickTime’s handling of the atom hierarchy within a movie file. For OS X Lion systems, this issue is addressed in OS X Lion v10.7.2. For Mac OS X v10.6 systems, this issue is addressed in Security Update 2011-006.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3221: an anonymous researcher working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: an attacker in a privileged network position may inject script in the local domain when viewing template HTML

    Description: a cross-site scripting issue existed in QuickTime Player’s “Save for Web” export. The template HTML files generated by this feature referenced a script file from a non-encrypted origin. An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to inject malicious scripts in the local domain if the user views a template file locally. This issue is addressed by removing the reference to an online script. This issue does not affect OS X Lion systems. For Mac OS X v10.6 systems, this issue is addressed in Security Update 2011-006.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3218: Aaron Sigel of vtty.com

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted FlashPix file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: a buffer overflow existed in QuickTime’s handling of FlashPix files. For OS X Lion systems, this issue is addressed in OS X Lion v10.7.2. For Mac OS X v10.6 systems, this issue is addressed in Security Update 2011-006.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3222: Damian Put working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: a buffer overflow existed in QuickTime’s handling of FLIC files. For OS X Lion systems, this issue is addressed in OS X Lion v10.7.2. For Mac OS X v10.6 systems, this issue is addressed in Security Update 2011-006.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3223: Matt “j00ru” Jurczyk working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: multiple memory corruption issues existed in QuickTime’s handling of movie files. For OS X Lion systems, these issues are addressed in OS X Lion v10.7.2. For Mac OS X v10.6 systems, these issues are addressed in Security Update 2011-006.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3228: Apple

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted PICT file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: an integer overflow issue existed in the handling of PICT files. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3247: Luigi Auriemma working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: a signedness issue existed in the handling of font tables embedded in QuickTime movie files.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3248: Luigi Auriemma working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: a buffer overflow issue existed in the handling of FLC encoded movie files.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3249: Matt “j00ru” Jurczyk working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: an integer overflow issue existed in the handling of JPEG2000 encoded movie files.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3250: Luigi Auriemma working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: a memory corruption issue existed in the handling of TKHD atoms in QuickTime movie files. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3251: Damian Put working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: a buffer overflow existed in QuickTime’s handling of RLE encoded movie files. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3428: Luigi Auriemma working with TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative

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