Integer overflow in the quicktime_read_pascal function in libquicktime 1.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted hdlr MP4 atom.

This update for libquicktime fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2016-2399: Adjust patch to prevent endless loop when     there are less than 256 bytes to read. (bsc#1022805)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for libquicktime fixes the following issues :

  - A crafted MP4 file could have caused libquicktime to     crash or lead to undefined behaviour (bsc#1022805,     CVE-2016-2399)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Marco Romano discovered that libquicktime, a library for reading and writing QuickTime files, was vulnerable to an integer overflow attack.
When opened, a specially crafted MP4 file would cause a denial of service by crashing the application.

Marco 'nemux' Romano discovered that an integer overflow in the quicktime_read_pascal function in libquicktime 1.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted hdlr MP4 atom.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.2.4-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libquicktime packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for libquicktime fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-2399: A Integer overflow in the     quicktime_read_pascal function in libquicktime allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service or     possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted     hdlr MP4 atom [boo#1022805]

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
102066	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libquicktime (SUSE-SU-2017:1986-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
97572	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libquicktime (SUSE-SU-2017:0610-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
97498	Debian DSA-3800-1 : libquicktime - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
97441	Debian DLA-844-1 : libquicktime security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
97368	openSUSE Security Update : libquicktime (openSUSE-2017-288)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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