VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3755

critical
Published 2012-11-09 · Modified 2026-04-29
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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 7.7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Targa image.

Predictions

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

Mitigations

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-22855 dos windows text · 1 KB
Senator of Pirates · 2012-11-20

Apple QuickTime 7.7.2 - Targa image Buffer Overflow

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB 
*Application : Apple QuickTime
Versions : <=  before 7.7.3
CVE : 2012-3755*
*Impact : 9.3 (High)*
*References* *:* *
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Nov/msg00002.html*
*Auther : Senator of Pirates*
*E-Mail : SenatorofPirates.team[at]gmail.com
FaceBook : /SenatorofPirates
                  **/SenatorofPiratesInfo
Greetz : To Morocco

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*Vulnerability :

A buffer overflow vulnerability in QuickTime PictureViewer.exe and the
specific flaw exists within TGA file images encoded data, When encountering
an invalid encoded width field and can be result a heap-based buffer
overflow occur.
And this vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or
cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Targa image. *
*
PoC :

http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/40547915/file.html
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/22855.tga

*

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos applequicktime{"endIncluding":"7.7.2"}
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 applequicktime6.1.1
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 applequicktime7.3.1.70
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

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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