Fortinet Security Advisory - Fortinet Security Research Team (FSRT) has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Apple QuickTime Player. Apple QuickTime has a buffer overflow vulnerability in parsing the specially crafted TGA image files. This is due to application failure to sanitize the parameter ImageWidth value while parsing TGA image files. A remote attacker could construct a web page with a specially crafted TGA file and entice a victim to view it, when the user opens the TGA image with Internet Explorer or Apple QuickTime Player, it will cause a memory access violation, leading to potential arbitrary command execution.
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Fortinet Security Advisory: FSA-2006-05
Apple QuickTime Player ImageWidth Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory Date : January 12, 2006
Reported Date : November 28, 2005
Vendor : Apple computers
Affected Products : Apple QuickTime Player v7.0.3
Severity : High
Reference : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3708
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303101
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16202/info
Description : Fortinet Security Research Team (FSRT) has
discovered a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in the Apple QuickTime Player.
Apple QuickTime has buffer overflow vulnerability in parsing the specially
crafted TGA image files. This is due to application failure to sanitize
the parameter ImageWidth value while parsing TGA image files. A remote
attacker could construct a web page with specially crafted TGA file and
entice a victim to view it, when the user opens the TGA image with
Internet Explorer or Apple QuickTime Player, it'll cause memory access
violation, and leading to potential Arbitrary Command Execution.
Impact : Execute arbitrary code
Solution : Apple Computers has released a security update for
this vulnerability, which is available for downloading from Apples's web
site under security update.
Fortinet Protection: Fortinet is protecting network from this
vulnerability with latest IPS update.
Acknowledgment : Dejun Meng of Fortinet Security Research team found
this vulnerability.
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