CVE-2007-4677

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 46.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime before 7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid color table size when parsing the color table atom (CTAB) in a movie file, related to the CTAB RGB values.

Affected products

macOS: 10.3.9, 10.4.10, 10.5
Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306896
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27523
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3352
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/445083
http://www.osvdb.org/38544
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483312/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26338
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018894
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-310A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3723
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-065.html

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