Security Advisory SA13804 - Apple iTunes Playlist Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA13804

Apple iTunes Playlist Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA13804

Release Date

2005-01-12

Last Update

2005-01-17

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Software:

Apple iTunes 4.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2005-0043 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Sean de Regge has reported a vulnerability in iTunes, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of .m3u and .pls playlists. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted playlist containing an overly long URL.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution
Update to version 4.7.1.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Sean de Regge

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Original Advisory
iDEFENSE:
http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=180&type=vulnerabilities

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