Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Apple iTunes, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Apple iTunes "itms" URI Handling Buffer Overflow
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35314
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35314/
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 when parsing
iTunes Music Store Protocol ("itms://") URIs and can be exploited to
cause a stack-based buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 8.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Will Drewry.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3592
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