Check Point Advisories

Apple QuickTime Color Table ID Heap Corruption (CVE-2007-0718)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-234
Date Published: 16 Feb 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-0718
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Apple QuickTime is a multimedia player that supports a wide range of media formats. The software supports parsing and displaying picture files as well as numerous video formats. QuickTime is capable of processing Apple QuickTime Image File format, which is a proprietary format created by Apple Computer, Inc. There exists a heap memory corruption vulnerability in Apple QuickTime product. The flaw is caused by insufficient checks when processing QTIF files. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open a crafted QTIF file, thereby injecting and executing arbitrary code with the privileges of the currently logged-in user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the vulnerable Quicktime application processing the malicious QTIF file will terminate abnormally. In a more sophisticated attack, where code injection is successful, the behavior of the target is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute within the security context of the current user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Apple QuickTime Color Table ID Heap Corruption protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Apple QuickTime Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Apple QuickTime color table ID heap corruption

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