{"id":19,"date":"2007-09-12T18:07:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T01:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2007\/09\/12\/quicktime-to-firefox-issue\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T18:07:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T01:07:34","slug":"quicktime-to-firefox-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2007\/09\/12\/quicktime-to-firefox-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Quicktime to Firefox issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Petko D. Petkov identified an issue in Quicktime that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Firefox is the default browser when a user plays a malicious media file handled by Quicktime, an attacker can use a vulnerability in Quicktime to compromise Firefox or the local machine.  This can happen while browsing or by opening a malicious media file directly in Quicktime.  So far this is only reproducible on Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Petkov provided proof of concept code that may be easily converted into an exploit, so users should consider this a very serious issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Status<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla is working with Apple to keep our users safe and we are also investigating ways to mitigate this more broadly in Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow our work in bugzilla: <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=395942\">https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=395942 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Petko D. Petkov discovered this issue and posted details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnucitizen.org\/blog\/0day-quicktime-pwns-firefox\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Petko D. Petkov identified an issue in Quicktime that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. 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