Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2015-0359 |
Date Published: | 26 Mar 2015 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Thursday 26 March, 2015 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2013-1020 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Apple Quicktime. The vulnerability is due to improper processing of mjpeg movies with an improper jpeg frame size in the stsd atom. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system or cause application crashes. |
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.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Apple QuickTime Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Apple Quicktime MJPEG Frame stsd Atom Heap Overflow - Ver2