CVE-2008-0778: Apple Quicktime

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 9.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in an ActiveX control in QTPlugin.ocx for Apple QuickTime 7.4.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) SetBgColor, (2) SetHREF, (3) SetMovieName, (4) SetTarget, and (5) SetMatrix methods.

Affected products

  • Apple Quicktime: up to and including 7.4.1

Published 2008-02-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.