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CVE-2010-1769: Apple Itunes: Remote code execution

CVE-2010-1769 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Apple Itunes. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

WebKit in Apple iTunes before 9.2 on Windows, and Apple iOS before 4 on the iPhone and iPod touch, accesses out-of-bounds memory during the handling of tables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted HTML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1387 and CVE-2010-1763.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Apple Itunes: up to and including 9.1.1; 7.0.0; 7.0.1; 7.0.2; 7.1.0; 7.1.1; 7.2.0; 7.3.0; 7.3.1; 7.3.2; 7.4; 7.4.0

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