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Credit:
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-040/
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Vulnerable Systems:
* Apple QuickTime
User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
The specific flaw exists during the parsing of samples from a malformed .mov file utilizing the RLE codec. While decoding RLE data, the application will fail to validate the size when decompressing the data into a heap chunk. If the length is larger than the size of the chunk allocated, then a memory corruption will occur leading to code execution under the context of the currently logged in user.
Patch Availability:
Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
CVE Information:
CVE-2010-0516
Disclosure Timeline:
2009-08-10 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-04-02 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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