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The U.S. Department of Energy
Computer Incident Advisory Capability
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INFORMATION BULLETIN
QuickTime 7.1.3
[Article ID: 304357]
September 12, 2006 23:00 GMT Number Q-314
[REVISED 13 Sept 2006]
[REVISED 14 Sept 2006]
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PROBLEM: Viewing a maliciously-crafted QuickTime movie, or a corrupt
H.264 movie, may lead to an application crash or arbitrary code
execution with the privileges of the user.
PLATFORM: Mac OS X v10.3.9 and later
Windows XP/2000
DAMAGE: An attacker could execute arbitrary code.
SOLUTION: Apply current patches.
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VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. An attacker could execute arbitrary code.
ASSESSMENT:
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LINKS:
CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/q-314.shtml
ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304357
ADDITIONAL LINKS: USCERT VU#540348
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/540348
USCERT VU#554252
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/554252
USCERT VU#683700
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/683700
USCERT VU#200316
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/200316
USCERT VU#308204
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/308204
USCERT VU#489836
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/489836
CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=
CVE-2006-4381 CVE-2006-4382 CVE-2006-4386 CVE-2006-4384
CVE-2006-4388 CVE-2006-4389 CVE-2006-4385
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REVISION HISTORY:
09/13/06 - added links to USCERT VU#540348, VU#554252, VU#683700, VU#200316, and VU#308204
09/14/06 - added a link to USCERT VU#489836
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Please visit Apple's website to view their QuickTime Security Advisory:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304357
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CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Apple for the
information contained in this bulletin.
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