CVE-2012-3722

medium
Published 2012-09-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

The Sorenson codec in QuickTime in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.5, and in CoreMedia in iOS before 6, accesses uninitialized memory locations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted movie file with Sorenson encoding.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected
macos macos10.0affected
macos macos10.0.0affected
macos macos10.0.1affected
macos macos10.0.2affected
macos macos10.0.3affected
macos macos10.0.4affected
macos macos10.1affected
macos macos10.1.0affected
macos macos10.1.1affected
macos macos10.1.2affected
macos macos10.1.3affected
macos macos10.1.4affected
macos macos10.1.5affected
macos macos10.2affected
macos macos10.2.0affected
macos macos10.2.1affected
macos macos10.2.2affected
macos macos10.2.3affected
macos macos10.2.4affected
macos macos10.2.5affected
macos macos10.2.6affected
macos macos10.2.7affected
macos macos10.2.8affected
macos macos10.3affected
macos macos10.3.0affected
macos macos10.3.1affected
macos macos10.3.2affected
macos macos10.3.3affected
macos macos10.3.4affected
macos macos10.3.5affected
macos macos10.3.6affected
macos macos10.3.7affected
macos macos10.3.8affected
macos macos10.3.9affected
macos macos10.4affected
macos macos10.4.0affected
macos macos10.4.1affected
macos macos10.4.2affected
macos macos10.4.3affected
macos macos10.4.4affected
macos macos10.4.5affected
macos macos10.4.6affected
macos macos10.4.7affected
macos macos10.4.8affected
macos macos10.4.9affected
macos macos10.4.10affected
macos macos10.4.11affected
macos macos10.5affected
macos macos10.5.0affected
macos macos10.5.1affected
macos macos10.5.2affected
macos macos10.5.3affected
macos macos10.5.4affected
macos macos10.5.5affected
macos macos10.5.6affected
macos macos10.5.7affected
macos macos10.5.8affected
macos macos10.6.0affected
macos macos10.6.1affected
macos macos10.6.2affected
macos macos10.6.3affected
macos macos10.6.4affected
macos macos10.6.5affected
macos macos10.6.6affected
macos macos10.6.7affected
macos macos10.6.8affected
macos macos10.7.0affected
macos macos10.7.1affected
macos macos10.7.2affected
macos macos10.7.3affected
macos macos1.0.0affected
macos macos1.0.1affected
macos macos1.0.2affected
macos macos1.1.0affected
macos macos1.1.1affected
macos macos1.1.2affected
macos macos1.1.3affected
macos macos1.1.4affected
macos macos1.1.5affected
macos macos2.0affected
macos macos2.0.1affected
macos macos2.0.2affected
macos macos2.1affected
macos macos2.1.1affected
macos macos2.2affected
macos macos2.2.1affected
macos macos3.0affected
macos macos3.0.1affected
macos macos3.1affected
macos macos3.1.2affected
macos macos3.1.3affected
macos macos3.2affected
macos macos3.2.1affected
macos macos3.2.2affected
macos macos4.0affected
macos macos4.0.1affected
macos macos4.0.2affected
macos macos4.1affected
macos macos4.2.1affected
macos macos4.2.5affected
macos macos4.2.8affected
macos macos4.3.0affected
macos macos4.3.1affected
macos macos4.3.2affected
macos macos4.3.3affected
macos macos4.3.5affected
macos macos5.0affected
macos macos5.0.1affected
macos macos5.1affected

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.