Check Point Advisories

Apple Quicktime RTSP URL Buffer Overflow - Ver2 (CVE-2007-0015)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-1406
Date Published: 16 Apr 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Wednesday 16 April, 2014
Source: CVE-2007-0015
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-0015
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R77, R76, 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 still image files as well as numerous audio and video formats. It also provides libraries and plugins for other applications, such as browsers, to read QuickTime media files. There exists a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Apple QuickTime. The vulnerability is caused due to lack of boundary checks when processing the "rtsp://" URLs. By enticing the target user, a remote unauthenticated attacker may leverage the vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary code in the security context of the currently logged in user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the affected application will terminate abnormally. In a more sophisticated attack where code injection results might be successful, the behaviour 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,
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 RTSP URL Buffer Overflow - 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 RTSP URL Buffer Overflow - Ver2

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