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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2007-6166 in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime before 7.3.1, as used in QuickTime Player on Windows XP and Safari on Mac OS X, allows remot…

published 2007-11-29 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-6135

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
41.8%
EPSS 41.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
10
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime before 7.3.1, as used in QuickTime Player on Windows XP and Safari on Mac OS X, allows remote Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) servers to execute arbitrary code via an RTSP response with a long Content-Type header.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/osx/rtsp/quicktime_rtsp_content_type)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

41.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/osx/rtsp/quicktime_rtsp_content_type MacOS X QuickTime RTSP Content-Type Overflow metasploit exploit, average rank, 2007-11-23
  • Metasploit exploit/windows/misc/apple_quicktime_rtsp_response Apple QuickTime 7.3 RTSP Response Header Buffer Overflow metasploit exploit, normal rank, 2007-11-23
  • EDB-16873 Apple QuickTime (Mac OSX) - RTSP Content-Type Overflow (Metasploit) remote, 2010-10-09
  • EDB-16424 Apple QuickTime 7.3 - RTSP Response Header Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) remote, 2010-05-09
  • EDB-11027 Apple QuickTime 7.2/7.3 - RTSP Buffer Overflow remote, 2010-01-06
  • EDB-6013 Apple Safari / QuickTime 7.3 - RTSP Content-Type Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2008-07-06
  • EDB-4664 Apple QuickTime 7.2/7.3 - RSTP Response Universal remote, 2007-11-27
  • EDB-4657 Apple QuickTime 7.2/7.3 (Internet Explorer 7 / Firefox / Opera) - RTSP Response Universal remote, 2007-11-26
  • EDB-4651 Apple QuickTime 7.2/7.3 (Windows Vista/XP) - RSTP Response Code Execution remote, 2007-11-24
  • EDB-4648 Apple QuickTime 7.2/7.3 - RTSP Response Remote Overwrite (SEH) dos, 2007-11-23

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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