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                       The U.S. Department of Energy
                   Computer Incident Advisory Capability
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                             INFORMATION BULLETIN

                        Apple QuickTime Vulnerabilities
                           [QuickTime 7.0.4 Release]

January 20, 2006 18:00 GMT                                        Number Q-105
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PROBLEM:       Several vulnerabilities have been addressed in Apple's 
               QuickTime, a popular multimedia player for both Mac and 
               Windows. 
PLATFORM:      QuickTime version 7.0.3 and earlier running on Mac and Windows 
DAMAGE:        Persuading a user to view a malicious image file (JPEG, TGA, 
               TIFF, GIF) may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. 
SOLUTION:      Apply the available update. 
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VULNERABILITY  The risk is MEDIUM. Persuading a user to view a malicious image 
ASSESSMENT:    file may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. 
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LINKS: 
 CIAC BULLETIN:      http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/xxx.shtml 
 ORIGINAL BULLETIN:  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303101 
 ADDITIONAL LINK:    US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#687201
                     http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/687201
 CVE:                http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= 
                     CVE-2005-2340, CVE-2005-3707, CVE-2005-3708, 
                     CVE-2005-3709, CVE-2005-3710, CVE-2005-3711, 
                     CVE-2005-3713, CVE-2005-4092 
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Please visit Apple's website to view their QuickTime Security Advisory:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303101 
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CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Apple for the 
information contained in this bulletin.
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