Check Point Advisories

Apple QuickTime Image Descriptor Atom Parsing Memory Corruption (CVE-2008-0033)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-243
Date Published: 4 Oct 2009
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 04 October, 2011
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-0033
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Apple QuickTime is a multimedia player that supports a wide range of media formats. The software supports parsing and displaying picture files as well as numerous video formats. QuickTime is capable of processing Apple QuickTime Image File format, which is a proprietary format created by Apple Computer, Inc. There exists a memory corruption vulnerability in Apple QuickTime application. The vulnerability is due to improper field verifications in the QTIF image file. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by providing a malicious QTIF image file to the target user. Potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed in the security context of the current user. In an attack case where code injection is successful, the behaviour of the target is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute within the security context of the current user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the affected Apple QuickTime process will terminate abnormally.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Apple QuickTime Image Descriptor Atom Parsing Memory Corruption protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Apple QuickTime Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Apple QuickTime image descriptor atom parsing memory corruption

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