QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and later operating systems. Apple QuickTime supports a number of native file formats to store images, audio, and movies such as .mov for movies and .pct for image files.

TeXML has been developed as an OpenSource project with the aim to automatically present XML data as PDF with sophisticated layout properties. An example of an XML document, which has already been transformed into the TeXML structure:

  	 		documentclass[a4paper]{article} 		usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} 		usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 	 	 		Misinterpretation of special characters as being functional characters is called "Escaping", thus: $, ^, > 	  

QuickTime TeXML has a specific format for constructing 3GPP-compliant timed text tracks in a QuickTime movie file. The following example demonstrates a typical TeXML file:

    	 		 			 		 		 			 			 			This is a simple run of text. 			 		 	  

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Apple QuickTime. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to download and process a specially crafted TeXML file with the vulnerable software. This can lead to code execution in the context of the vulnerable application.

Dell SonicWALL Threat team has researched this vulnerability and released the following IPS signatures to address the issue:

• 9957 Apple QuickTime TeXML Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow 1
• 9958 Apple QuickTime TeXML Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow 2

This vulnerability is referred by CVE as CVE-2013-1015.