__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple QuickTime Vulnerabiities May 12, 2006 21:00 GMT Number Q-197 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Several vulnerabilities have been addressed in Apple's QuickTime, a popular multimedia player for both Mac and Windows. PLATFORM: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows 2000 DAMAGE: An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. SOLUTION: Apply the available update. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM - An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow ASSESSMENT: which may result in an application crash or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/q-197.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303752 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2006-1458, CVE-2006-1459, CVE-2006-1460, CVE-2006-1461, CVE-2006-1462, CVE-2006-1463, CVE-2006-1464, CVE-2006-1249, CVE-2006-1465, CVE-2006-1453, CVE-2006-1454, CVE-2006-2238 ______________________________________________________________________________ Please visit Apple's website to view their QuickTime Security Advisory: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303752 _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Apple for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. CIAC services are available to DOE, DOE contractors, and the NIH. CIAC can be contacted at: Voice: +1 925-422-8193 (7x24) FAX: +1 925-423-8002 STU-III: +1 925-423-2604 E-mail: ciac@ciac.org Previous CIAC notices, anti-virus software, and other information are available from the CIAC Computer Security Archive. World Wide Web: http://www.ciac.org/ Anonymous FTP: ftp.ciac.org PLEASE NOTE: Many users outside of the DOE, ESnet, and NIH computing communities receive CIAC bulletins. If you are not part of these communities, please contact your agency's response team to report incidents. Your agency's team will coordinate with CIAC. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is a world-wide organization. A list of FIRST member organizations and their constituencies can be obtained via WWW at http://www.first.org/. This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor the University of California nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the United States Government or the University of California. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or the University of California, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. LAST 10 CIAC BULLETINS ISSUED (Previous bulletins available from CIAC) Q-187: Cisco Unity Express Q-188: Vulnerabilities in Ethereal Q-189: xorg-x11 Security Update Q-190: cgiirc -- Buffer Overflows Q-191: libtiff Security Update Q-193: Vulnerabilities in Macromedia Flash Player Q-194: Vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Q-192: ruby Security Update Q-195: Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Q-196: Apple Security Update 2006-003