National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0778

Overview

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in an ActiveX control in QTPlugin.ocx for Apple QuickTime 7.4.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) SetBgColor, (2) SetHREF, (3) SetMovieName, (4) SetTarget, and (5) SetMatrix methods.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 27769

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27769

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080212 QuickTime <= 7.4.1 QTPlugin.ocx Multiple Remote Stack Overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488045/100/0/threaded

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 5110

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5110

External Source: XF

Name: apple-quicktime-qtplugin-bo(40475)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/40475

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3652

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3652