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Memory corruption when Apple Quicktime parsers .pct file
CVE-2012-0671


INTRODUCTION

Apple Quicktime does not properly parse .pct media files, which causes
a corruption in module DllMain by opening a malformed file with an
invalid value located in PoC repro01.pct at offset 0x20E.

This problem was confirmed in the following versions of Quicktime and
Windows, other versions may be also affected.

Quicktime Player version 7.7.1 (1680.42) on Windows XP SP 3 - PT_BR.

Apple addressed the vulnerability in the May's Quicktime Patchset
(http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222)


CVSS Scoring System

The CVSS score is: 8.6
	Base Score: 10
	Temporal Score: 8.6
We used the following values to calculate the scores:
	Base score is: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
	Temporal score is: E:POC/RL:U/RC:UR


TRIGGERING THE PROBLEM

To trigger the problem a PoC file (repro01.pct) is available to
interested parties.



DETAILS


(f28.c24): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance)
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.
This exception may be expected and handled.
eax=02a70000 ebx=04402c68 ecx=98b1cc15 edx=00000004 esi=00000000
edi=088a5000
eip=6682ead8 esp=0012bfa8 ebp=00000001 iopl=0         nv up ei pl nz
ac pe nc
cs=001b  ss=0023  ds=0023  es=0023  fs=003b  gs=0000
efl=00210216
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export
symbols for C:\Arquivos de programas\QuickTime\QTSystem\QuickTime.qts -
QuickTime!DllMain+0x2d068:
6682ead8 668907          mov     word ptr [edi],ax
ds:0023:088a5000=????
0:000> !exploitable
Exploitability Classification: EXPLOITABLE
Recommended Bug Title: Exploitable - User Mode Write AV starting at
QuickTime!DllMain+0x000000000002d068 (Hash=0x0e483076.0x0e507376)
User mode write access violations that are not near NULL are exploitable.



CREDITS

This vulnerability was discovered by Rodrigo Rubira Branco
(http://twitter.com/bsdaemon) from the Qualys Vulnerability & Malware
Research Labs (VMRL).