Check Point Advisories

Apple QuickTime Text Track Descriptors Heap Buffer Overflow - Ver2 (CVE-2012-0664)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2014-2459
Date Published:	28 Dec 2014
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Sunday 28 December, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2012-0664
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R77, R76, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	A heap buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Apple QuickTime. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of parameters lengths. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a victim to open a specially crafted QuickTime Text file with an affected version of QuickTime. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the security context of the logged-on 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,
Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R77 / R76 / R75 / R71 / R70

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Apple QuickTime Text Track Descriptors Heap Buffer Overflow - Ver2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:

Attack Name: Apple QuickTime Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Apple QuickTime Text Track Descriptors Heap Buffer Overflow - Ver2