iTunes < 8.2 Remote Overflow

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5041

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a remote buffer overflow attack.

Description

According to its banner, the version of iTunes installed on the remote host is older than 8.2. Such versions may be affected by a remote buffer overflow when parsing 'items: ' URLs. An attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the remote host subject to the privileges of the user running the application.

Solution

Upgrade to iTunes 8.2 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5041

Family: Web Clients

Published: 8/18/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 38985, 38986

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apple:itunes

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Apple OS X iTunes 8.1.1 ITMS Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0950

BID: 35157

Detections

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