Secunia Advisory SA40660

Apple iTunes "itpc:" Handling Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory SA40660
Release Date 2010-07-20
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Apple iTunes 9.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2010-1777 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Apple iTunes, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling of "itpc:" URIs and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow when accessing a specially crafted "itpc:" URI.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 9.2.1.

Solution
Update to version 9.2.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Clint Ruoho, Laconic Security.

Original Advisory
Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4263

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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