__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple QuickTime 7.3 Security Update [306896] November 9, 2007 18:00 GMT Number S-044 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: A memory corruption issue exists in QuickTime's handling of image description atoms. PLATFORM: Mac OS X v10.3.8, v10.4.8 or later, v10.4 Windows Vista XP SP2 DAMAGE: Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file ASSESSMENT: may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-044.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306896 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2007-2395 CVE-2007-3750 CVE-2007-3751 CVE-2007-4672 CVE-2007-4675 CVE-2007-4676 CVE-2007-4677 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start 306896 *****] Please visit Apple's Web site to view their Security Update for QuickTime 7.3 at: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306896 [***** End 306896 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ 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) S-034: SonicWall NetExtender NELaunchCtrl ActiveX Vulnerability S-035: Perdition Format String Error S-036: Mono Vulnerability S-037: Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) Vulnerabilities S-038: Perl Security Update S-039: httpd Security Update S-040: Vulnerability in Macrovision SECDRV.SYS Driver on Windows S-041: Wireshark Security Update S-042: CoolKey Security and Bug Fix Update S-043: OpenSSH Security and Bug Fix Update