Check Point Advisories

Apple QuickTime MOV File JVTCompEncodeFrame Heap Overflow (CVE-2007-2295)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-263
Date Published: 16 Feb 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-2295
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 audio/video formats. One of the supported video format is the ITU-T H.264 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 or Advanced Video Coding (AVC). There exists a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Apple QuickTime. The flaw is due to insufficient bounds checking in the "JVTCompEncodeFrame()" function when processing malformed MOV files. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the vulnerable QuickTime application processing the malicious MOV file will terminate abnormally. In a more sophisticated attack, 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 logged-in user.

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 MOV File JVTCompEncodeFrame Heap Overflow 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 MOV file JVTCompEncodeFrame heap overflow

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