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Credit:
The information has been provided by Luigi Auriemma.
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-304/
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Vulnerable Systems:
* Apple Quicktime
Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. 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 how the application parses an audio stream encoded with the advanced audio codec. A field will be read from the file in order to calculate a length that is later used in a memory copy operation into a statically sized buffer. 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/HT4981
CVE Information:
CVE-2011-3252
Disclosure Timeline:
2011-04-11 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2011-10-26 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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