Check Point Advisories

Apple QuickTime PICT Multiple Records Handling Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-1019)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2008-278
Date Published:	4 Oct 2009
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Tuesday 19 June, 2012
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2008-1019
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Apple's 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 audio/video formats. There exists a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Apple QuickTime application. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of the PICT image file. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by providing a malicious PICT image file to the target user, potentially cause 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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Apple QuickTime PICT Multiple Records Handling Buffer Overflow protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
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 PICT multiple records handling buffer overflow