Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0008 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apple Quicktime Mpeg-2 Playback Component

047910
CVSS 7.6 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
high complexity
apple
microsoft
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component before 7.60.92.0 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted MPEG-2 movie. per http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2009/Jan/msg00001.html "This issue does not affect systems running Mac OS X."

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Apple
1
OS
Microsoft
4

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

NASL familyWindows
NASL idQUICKTIME_MPEG2_760920.NASL
descriptionThe remote host contains a copy of the QuickTime MPEG-2 playback component, a commercial add-on to QuickTime distributed by Apple. The remote version of this software is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability. To exploit this flaw, an attacker would need to entice a user to view or process a maliciously crafter move file.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id69422
published2013-08-21
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/69422
titleApple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component Code Execution
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(69422);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:28");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-0008");
  script_bugtraq_id(33393);

  script_name(english:"Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component Code Execution");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for QuickTime MPEG2 component");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host contains a media decoding application that contains a
remote code execution vulnerability.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host contains a copy of the QuickTime MPEG-2 playback
component, a commercial add-on to QuickTime distributed by Apple.

The remote version of this software is vulnerable to a remote code
execution vulnerability. To exploit this flaw, an attacker would need
to entice a user to view or process a maliciously crafter move file.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT3404");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade to bersion 7.60.92.0 of this component.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(20);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2009/01/21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/01/21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/08/21");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:apple:quicktime_mpeg-2_playback_component");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Windows");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("smb_hotfixes.nasl");
  script_require_keys("SMB/Registry/Enumerated");
  script_require_ports(139, 445);

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("smb_func.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");


get_kb_item_or_exit("SMB/Registry/Enumerated");

# Connect to the appropriate share.
port    =  kb_smb_transport();
login   =  kb_smb_login();
pass    =  kb_smb_password();
domain  =  kb_smb_domain();

if(! smb_session_init()) audit(AUDIT_FN_FAIL, "smb_session_init");

rc = NetUseAdd(login:login, password:pass, domain:domain, share:"IPC$");
if (rc != 1)
{
  NetUseDel();
  audit(AUDIT_SHARE_FAIL,"IPC$");
}


# Connect to remote registry.
hklm = RegConnectRegistry(hkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE);
if (isnull(hklm))
{
  NetUseDel();
  audit(AUDIT_REG_FAIL);
}

key = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{12EAE4F0-8770-451C-B4AD-76B569678973}";

# - nb: this works for recent versions of Adobe Reader.
key_h = RegOpenKey(handle:hklm, key:key, mode:MAXIMUM_ALLOWED);
value = NULL;
if (!isnull(key_h))
{
   value = RegQueryValue(handle:key_h, item:"DisplayVersion");
   RegCloseKey(handle:key_h);
}
RegCloseKey(handle:hklm);


NetUseDel();
if (isnull(value))
{
  exit(0, 'The QuickTime MPEG2 Compontent was not detected on this host.');
}

version = split(value[1], sep:'.', keep:FALSE);
if ( int(version[0]) == 0 ) exit(1, "Could not obtain the version of the software");
if ( int(version[0]) < 7 ||
     (int(version[0]) == 7 && int(version[1]) < 60) ||
     (int(version[0]) == 7 && int(version[1]) == 60 && int(version[2]) < 92 ) ) security_hole(port:kb_smb_transport(),
											      extra:'The remote version of the QuickTime MPEG2 component is ' + value[1]);

Oval

accepted2014-02-03T04:04:46.390-05:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameChandan S
    organizationSecPod Technologies
  • nameShane Shaffer
    organizationG2, Inc.
  • nameShane Shaffer
    organizationG2, Inc.
  • nameMaria Kedovskaya
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameMaria Kedovskaya
    organizationALTX-SOFT
definition_extensions
commentApple QuickTime is installed
ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:12443
descriptionUnspecified vulnerability in Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component before 7.60.92.0 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted MPEG-2 movie.
familywindows
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:5974
statusaccepted
submitted2009-01-28T10:10:10
titleApple QuickTime MPEG-2 Unspecified Vulnerability
version10

Seebug

bulletinFamilyexploit
descriptionBUGTRAQ ID: 33393 CVE(CAN) ID: CVE-2009-0008 Apple QuickTime是一款非常流行的多媒体播放器。 QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component允许QuickTime用户导入和播放特定格式的MPEG-2内容,可从Apple在线商店单独购买和下载。该组件存在输入验证错误,如果访问了特制的电影文件就会导致播放器意外终止或执行任意代码。 Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component 7.60 厂商补丁: Apple ----- 目前厂商已经发布了升级补丁以修复这个安全问题,请到厂商的主页下载: <a href=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/ target=_blank rel=external nofollow>http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/</a>
idSSV:4710
last seen2017-11-19
modified2009-02-04
published2009-02-04
reporterRoot
titleApple QuickTime MPEG-2播放组件远程内存破坏漏洞