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A vulnerability was found in Apple QuickTime up to 7.7.3. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component QTIF Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple QuickTime up to 7.7.3 (Multimedia Player Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component QTIF Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability.

The weakness was published 01/29/2013 by Debasish Mandal as 119890 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at packetstormsecurity.com. The public release happened without involvement of Apple. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by Debasish Mandal and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (24437), SecurityFocus (BID 57573†) and OSVDB (89692†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Multimedia Player Software

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• QuickTime

Version

• 7.7.0
• 7.7.1
• 7.7.2
• 7.7.3

License

• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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