CVE-2012-3722

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Sorenson codec in QuickTime in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.5, and in CoreMedia in iOS before 6, accesses uninitialized memory locations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted movie file with Sorenson encoding.

Affected products

Apple Iphone Os: through 5.1.1; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+33)
macOS: through 10.7.4; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+64)
Apple Mac Os X Server: through 10.7.4; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+64)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78715
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78715

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