Check Point Advisories

Apple QuickTime H.264 Movie File Buffer Overflow (CVE-2009-2799)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2009-418
Date Published:	8 Apr 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Tuesday 30 August, 2011
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2009-2799
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). A heap memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Apple QuickTime. The error is due to improper bounds checking when handling malicious H.264 encoded movie files. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to view a specially crafted H.264 movie file. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the user. An unsuccessful code execution attempt can lead to abnormal termination of the vulnerable program.

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 H.264 Movie File 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 H.264 movie file buffer overflow