The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has made an official announcement on the vulnerability of Apple QuickTime for Windows: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA16-105A.
This vulnerability can occur if the user visits a malicious web page, or opens a malicious .MOV file in either the QuickTime Player or in EDIUS.
The following functionality will be lost if QuickTime is uninstalled:
EDIUS uses QuickTime components for the handling of certain image types and formats. Grass Valley does NOT recommend completely removing QuickTime because EDIUS requires it to be present when installing or updating. If it is essential to do so, the following steps should be followed:
The security risk in the QuickTime Player can be removed by installing QuickTime Essentials:
If only QuickTime Essentials is installed, the functionality lost in EDIUS is as follows:
IMPORTANT NOTE: This workaround minimizes the risk of EDIUS being affected by the QuickTime security issue, but does not completely remove it. According to the vulnerability report, the user is still at risk if opening a malicious .MOV file directly in EDIUS.
Grass Valley engineering will be assessing how best to update EDIUS to ensure that the full feature set is available without any requirement to install QuickTime for Windows. We will advise as soon as possible a timescale for when we think this can be implemented, but it is anticipated that it can be achieved within the next 1 or 2 maintenance releases.
This topic is also covered in the online FAQ:
http://www.ediusworld.com/en/support/faq/cat121/edius_all_768.html
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