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

                             Apple QuickTime 7.1.6
                                    [305446]

May 3, 2007 21:00 GMT                                             Number R-224
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PROBLEM:       An implementation issue exists in QuickTime for Java, which may 
               allow reading or writing out of the bounds of the allocated 
               heap. 
PLATFORM:      Mac OS X v10.3.9, v10.4.9 
               Windows XP SP2 
			   Windows 2000 SP4 
DAMAGE:        Visiting a malicious website may lead to arbitrary code 
               execution. 
SOLUTION:      Upgrade to the appropriate version. 
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VULNERABILITY  The risk is MEDIUM. Visiting a malicious website may lead to 
ASSESSMENT:    arbitrary code execution. 
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LINKS: 
 CIAC BULLETIN:      http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-224.shtml 
 ORIGINAL BULLETIN:  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305446 
 CVE:                http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= 
                     CVE-2007-2175 
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Please visit Apple's Web Site to view their Security Update QuickTime 7.1.6:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305446

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CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Apple for the 
information contained in this bulletin.
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