CVE-2008-4116 (GCVE-0-2008-4116)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-09-17 18:06
Modified
2024-08-07 10:00
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime 7.5.5 and iTunes 8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long type attribute in a quicktime tag (1) on a web page or embedded in a (2) .mp4 or (3) .mov file, possibly related to the Check_stack_cookie function and an off-by-one error that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.
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