RE: [Full-disclosure] Fortinet Advisory - Apple QuickTime PlayerStripByteCounts Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

["Tom Ferris" <tommy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hahah yeah huh!  a more detailed advisory would also be nice.  this really 
doesn't tell us much.

-- tom

-----Original Message-----

From:  "Paul" <pvnick@xxxxxxxxx>
Subj:  RE: [Full-disclosure] Fortinet Advisory - Apple QuickTime 
PlayerStripByteCounts Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Date:  Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:01 pm
Size:  2K
To:  <secresearch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
<full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<vulnwatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
<bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<ntbugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Seems to be a lot of quicktime vuln advisories the past couple days.
Coincidence?

Paul
Greyhats Security

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
secresearch@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 6:41 PM
To: full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; vulnwatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ntbugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Fortinet Advisory - Apple QuickTime Player
StripByteCounts Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Fortinet Security Advisory: FSA-2006-01

Apple QuickTime Player StripByteCounts Buffer 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-2005-3711
                 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 TIFF image files. This is due to application failure to sanitize
the parameter StripByteCounts while parsing TIFF image files. A remote
attacker could  construct a web page with specially crafted tiff file and
entice a victim to view it, when the user opens the TIFF 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.



_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/

-- 
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.17/227 - Release Date: 1/11/2006
 

-- 
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.17/227 - Release Date: 1/11/2006
 

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/