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CVE-2007-4677 (GCVE-0-2007-4677)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-07 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:01
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime before 7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid color table size when parsing the color table atom (CTAB) in a movie file, related to the CTAB RGB values.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306896 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/445083 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://secunia.com/advisories/27523 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/38544 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3723 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3352 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Date Public
2007-11-05 00:00
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        "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
        "vulnStatus": "Modified",
        "weaknesses": [
          {
            "description": [
              {
                "lang": "en",
                "value": "CWE-119"
              }
            ],
            "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
            "type": "Primary"
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  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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