Apple iTunes up to 12.8 on Windows State Management memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple iTunes up to 12.8 on Windows. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component State Management. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2018-4316. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Apple iTunes up to 12.8 on Windows (Multimedia Player Software). This affects an unknown code block of the component State Management. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue affected versions prior to iOS 12, tvOS 12, Safari 12, iTunes 12.9 for Windows, iCloud for Windows 7.7.

The bug was discovered 09/12/2018. The weakness was shared 04/03/2019. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-4316 since 01/02/2018. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 81 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 119323 (GLSA-201812-04 : WebkitGTK+: Multiple vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 197266 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Webkit2gtk Vulnerabilities (USN-3781-1)).

Upgrading to version 12.9 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (119323). The entries VDB-129059, VDB-129108, VDB-129109 and VDB-129110 are related to this item. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Multimedia Player Software

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• iTunes

Version

• 12.0
• 12.1
• 12.2
• 12.3
• 12.4
• 12.5
• 12.6
• 12.7
• 12.8

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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