A vulnerability has been identified in Apple QuickTime, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing an overly long RTSP "Content-Type" header, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into connecting to a specially crafted stream or visiting a malicious web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Krystian Kloskowski (h07).
ChangeLog
2007-11-26 : Initial release
2007-12-14 : Updated Solution
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