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Credit:
The information has been provided by Moritz Jodeit.
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-044/
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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 within QuickTimeAuthoring.qtx during the parsing of DELTA_FLI chunks stored within a malformed .fli file. The applications trusts a user-supplied length for decompression which can be modified to copy more data than necessary leading to a buffer overflow. Successful exploitation can lead to code execution under the context of the current user.
Patch Availability:
Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4104
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4070
CVE Information:
CVE-2010-0520
Disclosure Timeline:
2009-11-06 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-04-02 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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