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Vulnerability Assessment Details

Quicktime PictureViewer Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the version of QuickTime Player/Plug-in

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is using QuickTime, a popular media player/Plug-in
which handles many Media files.

The remote version of this software contains a buffer overflow vulnerability
in its PictureViewer which may permit a possible hacker to execute arbitrary code
on the remote host.

To exploit this vulnerability, a possible hacker needs to send a malformed image
file to a victim on the remote host and wait for her to open it using
QuickTime PictureViewer

Solution : Upgrade to QuickTime version 6.5.2 or later.
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 12905

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Tenable Network Security

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