Secunia Research: QuickTime Sorenson Video 3 Array-Indexing Vulnerability

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                     Secunia Research 11/11/2010

    - QuickTime Sorenson Video 3 Array-Indexing Vulnerability -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10

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1) Affected Software 

* Apple QuickTime 7.6.6 and 7.6.8

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity 

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where:  Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software 

"When you hop aboard QuickTime 7 Player, you?re assured of a truly 
rich multimedia experience.".

Product Link:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in QuickTime, which 
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused by an array-indexing error when parsing 
Sorenson Video 3 content and can be exploited to corrupt memory during
decompression via a specially crafted file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution 

This will be addressed in an upcoming version for Windows. A fix is 
available for Mac OS X.

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6) Time Table 

13/04/2010 - Vendor notified.
13/04/2010 - Vendor response.
26/10/2010 - Vendor provides status update.
11/11/2010 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits 

Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned 
CVE-2010-3793 for the vulnerability.

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10) Verification 

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