CVE-2011-3249

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime before 7.7.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted movie file with FLC encoding.

Affected products

Apple Installer of QuickTime for Windows: through 7.7; 3.0, 4.1.2, 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 6.0 (+48)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5016
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16130
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5016
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16130

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