However, even with protections, ultimately the right answer is to follow Apple’s guidance and uninstall QuickTime for Windows. Our Deep Security and Vulnerability Protection customers are protected against these two vulnerabilities with the release of DSRU ID: 16-010 which includes the rules 1007594-Apple QuickTime ‘moov’ Atom Heap Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability and 1007595-Apple QuickTime Atom Processing Heap Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Our TippingPoint customers have been protected against these two vulnerabilities since Novemwith filters 21918 (ZDI-CAN-3401) and 21919 (ZDI-CAN-3402). You can find information on how to uninstall Apple QuickTime for Windows from the Apple website here: In this regard, QuickTime for Windows now joins Microsoft Windows XP and Oracle Java 6 as software that is no longer being updated to fix vulnerabilities and subject to ever increasing risk as more and more unpatched vulnerabilities are found affecting it. But the only way to protect your Windows systems from potential attacks against these or other vulnerabilities in Apple QuickTime now is to uninstall it. We’re not aware of any active attacks against these vulnerabilities currently. And because Apple is no longer providing security updates for QuickTime on Windows, these vulnerabilities are never going to be patched. These advisories are being released in accordance with the Zero Day Initiative’s Disclosure Policy for when a vendor does not issue a security patch for a disclosed vulnerability. Second, our Zero Day Initiative has just released two advisories ZDI-16-241 and ZDI-16-242 detailing two new, critical vulnerabilities affecting QuickTime for Windows.

Note that this does not apply to QuickTime on Mac OSX. They will no longer be issuing security updates for the product on the Windows Platform and recommend users uninstall it.

We’re putting the word out that everyone should follow Apple’s guidance and uninstall QuickTime for Windows as soon as possible.įirst, Apple is deprecating QuickTime for Microsoft Windows.

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