FortiGuard Advisory (FGA-2006-03)
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Denial of Service Vulnerability in Apple QuickTime Player ImageWidth 2006.January.12 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 the 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 Severity: High Affected Products: Apple QuickTime Player v7.0.3 Reference:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3710 Workaround: Apply security patch available from Apple computers Acknowledgment: Dejun Meng of Fortinet Security Research team found this vulnerability. Disclaimer: Although Fortinet has attempted to provide accurate information in these materials, Fortinet assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information. More specific information is available on request from Fortinet. Please note that Fortinet's product information does not constitute or contain any guarantee, warranty or legally binding representation, unless expressly identified as such in a duly signed writing. About Fortinet ( www.fortinet.com ): Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified in six programs by ICSA Labs: (Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS, and Anti-Spyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California. |