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Apple OS X iTunes 8.1.1 ITMS Overflow

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Apple OS X iTunes 8.1.1 ITMS Overflow

Disclosed
06/01/2009
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This modules exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in iTunes itms:// URL parsing. It is accessible from the browser and in Safari, itms urls will be opened in iTunes automatically. Because iTunes is multithreaded, only vfork-based payloads should be used.

Author(s)

  • Will Drewry <redpig@dataspill.org>

Platform

OSX

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/multi/browser/itms_overflow
msf exploit(itms_overflow) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(itms_overflow) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(itms_overflow) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(itms_overflow) > exploit

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