PT-2005-3637 · Apple · Quicktime Player

Piotr Bania · Published 2005-11-05 · Updated 2018-10-19 · CVE-2005-2755

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.6

Low

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple QuickTime Player versions prior to 7.0.3

Description The issue is a denial of service that can be triggered by a crafted file with a missing movie attribute. This missing attribute is not flagged as an error, leading to a null pointer dereference, which results in the application crashing and loss of availability.

Recommendations For Apple QuickTime Player versions prior to 7.0.3, update to version 7.0.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of crafted files that may trigger the null pointer dereference until a patch is applied.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2755

Affected Products

Quicktime Player

References · 13

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2755 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17428 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015152 · Vendor Advisory
• http://pb.specialised.info/all/adv/quicktime-mov-dos-adv.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2293 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/415717/30/0/threaded · Note
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302772 · Note
• http://frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2293 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/415717/30/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/145 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/15307 · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0102.html · Note
• http://osvdb.org/20477 · Note