VAR-200505-0875

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-03 22:27

Apple QuickTime Player 7.0 on Mac OS X 10.4 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a .mov file with a Quartz Composer composition (.qtz) file that uses certain patches to read local information, then other patches to send the information to the attacker.

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TITLE: Apple QuickTime Quartz Composer Disclosure of System Information

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA15307

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/15307/

CRITICAL: Not critical

IMPACT: Exposure of system information

WHERE:

From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM: Apple Macintosh OS X http://secunia.com/product/96/

SOFTWARE: Apple QuickTime 7.x http://secunia.com/product/5090/

DESCRIPTION: David Remahl has reported a weakness in Apple QuickTime, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose some system information.

The problem is that Quartz Composer compositions embedded in ".mov" files can access certain system information, which can be disclosed to web sites via JavaScript. This can e.g. be exploited to disclose the local username and directory information by tricking a user into visiting a malicious web site.

SOLUTION: Disable the QuickTime browser plugin and do not open ".mov" and Quartz Composer files from untrusted sources.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: David Remahl

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://remahl.se/david/vuln/018/

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