National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4677

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime before 7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid color table size when parsing the color table atom (CTAB) in a movie file, related to the CTAB RGB values.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-310A

Name: TA07-310A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-310A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#445083

Name: VU#445083

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/445083

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27523

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27523

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-11-05

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00000.html

External Source: XF

Name: quicktime-colortable-atom-bo(38283)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38283

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-065.html

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-065.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3723

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3723

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018894

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018894

External Source: BID

Name: 26338

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26338

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071105 ZDI-07-065: Apple QuickTime Color Table RGB Parsing Heap Corruption Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483312/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 38544

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/38544

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3352

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3352

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306896

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306896