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ZDI-08-058: Apple QuickTime Panorama PDAT Atom Parsing Buffer Overflow
Vulnerability
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-058
September 9, 2008
The specific flaw exists in the handling of panorama track PDAT atoms. When the maxTilt, minFieldOfView and maxFieldOfView elements are corrupted, a stack buffer overflow occurs which can be further leveraged to execute arbitrary code under the context of the current user.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3027
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