Apple QuickTime Unsupported on Windows

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90544

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Synopsis

Apple QuickTime is installed on the remote Windows host.

Description

Apple no longer supports any version of QuickTime on Windows.

Lack of support implies that no new security patches for the product will be released by the vendor. As a result, it is likely to contain security vulnerabilities.

Note that the last version of QuickTime released for Windows had known vulnerabilities related to processing atom indexes. A remote attacker can exploit these, by convincing a user to view a malicious website or open a crafted file, to cause heap corruption within QuickTime, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code in the context of the user or process running QuickTime.

Solution

Uninstall Apple QuickTime.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90544

File Name: quicktime_unsupported.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 4/15/2016

Updated: 11/23/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS Score Rationale: Tenable standard unsupported software score.

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: manual

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apple:quicktime

Required KB Items: installed_sw/QuickTime for Windows

Reference Information

IAVA: 0001-A-0518

ZDI: ZDI-16-241, ZDI-16-242

Detections

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