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Vigil@nce: Apple QuickTime, code execution via DLL Preload
September 2010 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : http://vigilance.fr/
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use a malicious QuickTime Picture Viewer DLL in
order to execute code in Opera.
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 16/09/2010
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The QuickTime program loads the QuickTime Picture Viewer library
when it starts.
However, the library is loaded insecurely. An attacker can thus
use the VIGILANCE-VUL-9879 (https://vigilance.fr/tree/1/9879)
vulnerability to execute code.
An attacker can therefore use a malicious QuickTime Picture Viewer
DLL, in order to execute code in the context of QuickTime.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Apple-QuickTime-code-execution-via-DLL-Preload-9948
