CVE-2014-4979
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.3
Description
Apple QuickTime allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a malformed version number and flags in an mvhd atom.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apple | quicktime | | |
References
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68852
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030638
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-264/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6493
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68852
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030638
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-264/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6493
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.