Thursday, January 22, 2009

Patched Apple QuickTime And Its Component Released

Apple has released a new version for QuickTime player. Version 7.6 fixes seven different vulnerabilities related to handling of audio and video contents. Vulnerabilities make it possibly to cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution on target machine.

Also, one vulnerability in QuickTime mpeg-2 playback component for Windows -component was fixed. Fixed problem is related to mpeg-2 file handling and makes it possible to cause an unexpected application termination or execute arbitrary code on target machine.

QuickTime 7.6 can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads.

The QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is not installed by default, and is provided separately from QuickTime. Details are available via http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2.

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