__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple QuickTime Vulnerabilities [HT1991] June 19, 2008 16:00 GMT Number S-318 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Apple QuickTime does not properly handle "file: URLs" which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. PLATFORM: Apple QuickTime versions prior to 7.5 DAMAGE: Execute arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. By convincing a user to play a maliciously ASSESSMENT: crafted QuickTime file, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. ______________________________________________________________________________ CVSS 2 BASE SCORE: 6.4 TEMPORAL SCORE: 5.3 VECTOR: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C) ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-318.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1991 ADDITIONAL LINK: US-CERT VU# 132419 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/132419 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2008-1585 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start HT1991 *****] Please visit Apple's Web site to view their Apple QuickTime 7.5 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1991 [***** End HT1991 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ 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-213: Nukedit 'email' Parameter Vulnerability S-214: SurgeMail and WebMail 'Page' Command Vulnerability S-215: Symantec Backup Exec Scheduler ActiveX Control Multiple Vulnerabilities S-216: Juniper Networks Secure Access 2000 'rdremediate.cgi' Vulnerability S-217: Drupal Multiple HTML Vulnerabilities S-218: gd Security Update S-219: Juniper Networks Secure Access 2000 Web Root Path Vulnerability S-220: PHP-Nuke My_eGallery Module 'gid' Parameter Vulnerability S-221: Learn2 STRunner ActiveX Control Vulnerabilities S-222: Evolution Security Update