Check Point Advisories

Apple QuickTime STSD JPEG Atom Heap Corruption - Ver2 (CVE-2009-0007)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-1271
Date Published: 31 Mar 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 31 March, 2014
Source: CVE-2009-0007
Industry Reference:CVE-2009-0007
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R77, R76, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Apple's 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 audio/video formats. There exists a heap buffer memory corruption vulnerability in Apple QuickTime. The vulnerability is due to lack of boundary checks while processing the JPEG atoms embedded in the STSD atom in QuickTime movie files. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a crafted QuickTime movie file. Successful exploitation may lead to arbitrary code execution in the security context of the logged in user. In an attack case 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. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the affected Apple QuickTime process will terminate abnormally.

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,
Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R77 / R76 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Apple QuickTime STSD JPEG Atom Heap Corruption - Ver2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:

Attack Name:  Apple QuickTime Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Apple QuickTime STSD JPEG Atom Heap Corruption - Ver2

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