CVE-2013-1017

critical
Published 2013-05-24 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime before 7.7.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted dref atoms in a movie file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

Apple Quicktime 7 Invalid Atom Length Buffer Overflow
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Apple Quicktime 7 Invalid Atom Length Buffer Overflow
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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windowsnot-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos applequicktime{"endIncluding":"7.7.3"}
macos applequicktime3.0
macos applequicktime4.1.2
macos applequicktime5.0
macos applequicktime5.0.1
macos applequicktime5.0.2
macos applequicktime6.0
macos applequicktime6.0.0
macos applequicktime6.0.1
macos applequicktime6.0.2
macos applequicktime6.1
macos applequicktime6.1.0
macos applequicktime6.1.1
macos applequicktime6.2.0
macos applequicktime6.3.0
macos applequicktime6.4.0
macos applequicktime6.5
macos applequicktime6.5.0
macos applequicktime6.5.1
macos applequicktime6.5.2
macos applequicktime7.0.0
macos applequicktime7.0.1
macos applequicktime7.0.2
macos applequicktime7.0.3
macos applequicktime7.0.4
macos applequicktime7.1.0
macos applequicktime7.1.1
macos applequicktime7.1.2
macos applequicktime7.1.3
macos applequicktime7.1.4
macos applequicktime7.1.5
macos applequicktime7.1.6
macos applequicktime7.2.0
macos applequicktime7.2.1
macos applequicktime7.3.0
macos applequicktime7.3.1
macos applequicktime7.4.0
macos applequicktime7.4.1
macos applequicktime7.4.5
macos applequicktime7.5.0
macos applequicktime7.5.5
macos applequicktime7.6.0
macos applequicktime7.6.1
macos applequicktime7.6.2
macos applequicktime7.6.5
macos applequicktime7.6.6
macos applequicktime7.6.7
macos applequicktime7.6.8
macos applequicktime7.6.9
macos applequicktime7.7.0
macos applequicktime7.7.1
macos applequicktime7.7.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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