CVE-2007-5045

Argument injection vulnerability in Apple QuickTime 7.1.5 and earlier, when running on systems with Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.7 installed, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a QuickTime Media Link (QTL) file with an embed XML element and a qtnext parameter containing the Firefox "-chrome" argument. NOTE: this is a related issue to CVE-2006-4965 and the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3670.

Score

CVSS 2.0 9.3 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2007-09-24

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-94

Affected products

• Quicktime (Apple)
• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26881
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201516-1
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/0day-quicktime-pwns-firefox
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-28.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_57_mozilla.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479179/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3197
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395942
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5896