Secunia Security Advisory - A weakness has been reported in Apple iTunes, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.
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TITLE:
Apple iTunes Software Update Spoofing Weakness
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46848
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-15
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DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in Apple iTunes, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.
The weakness is caused due the software update mechanism using an
HTTP request to check for new updates. This can be exploited to e.g.
spoof an update via Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks.
Successful exploitation requires that Apple Software Update is not
installed.
The weakness is reported in versions prior to 10.5.1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 10.5.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Francisco Amato, Infobyte Security Research.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5030
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