Check Point Advisories

Apple QuickTime Image Description Atom Sign Extension Memory Corruption (CVE-2009-0955)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2009-392
Date Published: 9 Feb 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 11 August, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2009-0955
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description QuickTime is a media player application developed by Apple. It is capable of playing back numerous multimedia file formats from local file system or remote servers. There exists a sign extension based memory corruption vulnerability in Apple QuickTime. The vulnerability is due to improper processing of Image Description Atoms in Apple Video files. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a crafted QuickTime movie file. Successful exploitation may lead to arbitrary code execution in the security context of the logged in user. 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. 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 Description Atom Sign Extension 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 description atom sign extension memory corruption

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