Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2008-279 |
Date Published: | 18 Feb 2010 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Sunday 14 February, 2016 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2008-1017 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
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 memory corruption vulnerability in Apple QuickTime application. The vulnerability is due to improper checking of the crgn atom. In an attack case where code injection is successful, the behavior 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. |
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Apple QuickTime Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Apple QuickTime crgn atom parsing memory corruption