CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-2175
7.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Apple QuickTime Java extensions (QTJava.dll), as used in Safari and other browsers, and when Java is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via parameters to the toQTPointer method in quicktime.util.QTHandleRef, which can be used to modify arbitrary memory when creating QTPointerRef objects, as demonstrated during the "PWN 2 0WN" contest at CanSecWest 2007.
Affected configurations
• apple safari
References
- http://cansecwest.com/post/2007-04-20-14:54:00.First_Mac_Hacked_Cancel_Or_Allow cansecwest.com
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305446 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/420668 US Government Resource
- http://www.matasano.com/log/806/hot-off-the-matasano-sms-queue-cansec-macbook-challenge-won/ www.matasano.com
- http://www.matasano.com/log/812/breaking-macbook-vuln-in-quicktime-affects-win32-apple-code/ www.matasano.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/34178 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467319/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017950 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/pwn-2-own_winner/ www.theregister.co.uk
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-023.html www.zerodayinitiative.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33827 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://cansecwest.com/post/2007-04-20-14:54:00.First_Mac_Hacked_Cancel_Or_Allow cansecwest.com
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305446 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/420668 US Government Resource
- http://www.matasano.com/log/806/hot-off-the-matasano-sms-queue-cansec-macbook-challenge-won/ www.matasano.com
- http://www.matasano.com/log/812/breaking-macbook-vuln-in-quicktime-affects-win32-apple-code/ www.matasano.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/34178 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467319/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017950 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/pwn-2-own_winner/ www.theregister.co.uk
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-023.html www.zerodayinitiative.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33827 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com