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QuickTime < 7.5.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4651

Synopsis

The remote host contains an application that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of QuickTime installed on the remote host is older than 7.5.5. Such versions contain several vulnerabilities :

 - Heap and stack buffer overflows in the handling of panorama atoms in QTVR (QuickTime Virtual Reality) movie files could lead to an application crash or arbitrary code execution (CVE-2008-3624 and CVE-2008-3625).
 - A memory corruption issue in QuickTime's handling of STSZ atoms in movie files could lead to an application crash or arbitrary code execution (CVE-2008-3626).
 - Multiple memory corruption issues in QuickTime's handling of H.264-encoded movie files could lead to an application crash or arbitrary code execution (CVE-2008-3627).
 - An out-of-bounds read issue in QuickTime's handling of PICT images could lead to an application crash (CVE-2008-3629).

Solution

Either use QuickTime's Software Update preference to upgrade to the latest version or manually upgrade to version 7.5.5 or higher.

See Also

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Sep/msg00000.html

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3027

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4651

Family: Web Clients

Published: 9/10/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 34118

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apple:quicktime

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3614, CVE-2008-3615, CVE-2008-3624, CVE-2008-3625, CVE-2008-3626, CVE-2008-3627, CVE-2008-3628, CVE-2008-3629, CVE-2008-3635

BID: 31086, 31546, 31548