26.11.2007 08:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Vulnerability in QuickTime 7.3

The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team released a RTSP Content-Type header stack buffer overflow vulnerability affecting QuickTime 7.3, and indirectly iTunes 7.5, running on Windows: Overview Apple QuickTime contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition. Description Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a protocol that is used by streaming media systems. The Apple QuickTime Streaming Server and QuickTime player both support for RTSP. Apple QuickTime contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the way QuickTime handles the RTSP Content-Type header. This vulnerability may be exploited by convincing a user to connect to a specially crafted RTSP stream. Note that QuickTime is a component of Apple iTunes, therefore iTunes installations are also affected by this v

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