Fortinet Advisory - Apple QuickTime Player ImageWidth Denial of Service Vulnerability

Fortinet Security Advisory: FSA-2006-03

Apple QuickTime Player ImageWidth Denial of Service Vulnerability

Advisory Date      : January 12, 2006
Reported Date      : November 28, 2005
Vendor             : Apple computers
Affected Products  : Apple QuickTime Player v7.0.3
Severity           : Medium
Reference      : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2005=
-3710
                 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=3D303101
                 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16202/info

Description        :  Fortinet Security Research Team (FSRT) has
discovered a Denial of Service Vulnerability in the Apple QuickTime
Player. Apple QuickTime has Denial of Service vulnerability in parsing th=
e
specially crafted TIFF image files. This is due to application failure to
sanitize the parameter ImageWidth value while parsing TIFF image files. A
remote attacker could construct a web page with specially crafted tiff
file and entice a victim to view it, when the user opens the TIFF image
with Internet Explorer or Apple QuickTime Player, it'll cause memory
access violation, and leading to Denial of Service.

Impact             : Denial of Service

Solution           : Apple Computers has released a security update for
this vulnerability, which is available for downloading from Apples's web
site under security update.

Fortinet Protection: Fortinet is protecting network from this
vulnerability with latest IPS update.

Acknowledgment     : Dejun Meng of Fortinet Security Research team found
this vulnerability.


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