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>> Apple iTunes "CreateProcess" Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Apple iTunes "CreateProcess" Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2443
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2938
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-11-15


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A vulnerability has been identified in Apple iTunes, which could be exploited by malicious users to obtain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to an error in the way iTunes launches its helper application and searches system paths using the "CreateProcess()" and "CreateProcessAsUser()" functions to determine the program to run, which could be exploited by a malicious local user to create an environment where a malicious program will be executed with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable application.

Affected Products

Apple iTunes 5 for Windows XP/2000

Solution

Upgrade to iTunes 6 :
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2443
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/901
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Nov/msg00001.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by iDEFENSE

ChangeLog

2005-11-15 : Initial release

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