Flaw discovered in Apple QuickTime for Mac and PC platform
January 2nd, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 31 times, 1 so far today
Flaw discovered in Apple QuickTime for Mac and PC platform
The Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB) has begun and it has alerted the users of a critical bug in the company’s QuickTime application for both Mac and the PC platforms.
The project people claims that the QuickTime software has a highly serious bug that could leave Windows and Mac users open to attacks by malicious Web sites.
This bug has been disclosed by a MOAB organizer who hasn’t disclosed his name. He goes by the nick of LMH.
The report claims that the flaw affects any Windows or Mac OS X bug with QuickTime Player version 7.1.3 installed. Previous versions of the application are also vulnerable with this bug.
The bug exists in the way, Apple QuickTime handles addresses beginning with “rtsp://”. LMH disclosed that the bug can be exploited to create a stack-based buffer overflow using HTML, JavaScript, or a QTL file.
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