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Credit:
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-260/
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Vulnerable Systems:
* Apple Quicktime
The specific flaw exists within Apple's support for Panoramic Images and occurs due to the application trusting a particular field for calculation of an offset. Due to the field being treated as a signed integer, the calculated offset can result in a pointer outside the bounds of the expected buffer. Upon usage of this out-of-bounds pointer, the application will write proceed to write image data to the invalid location. Successful exploitation can lead to code execution under the context of the application.
Patch Availability:
Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability.
More details can be found at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4447
CVE Information:
CVE-2010-3802
Disclosure Timeline:
2010-03-22 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-12-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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