VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0677

critical
Published 2012-06-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Apple iTunes before 10.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted .m3u playlist.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos appleitunes{"endIncluding":"10.6.1"}
macos appleitunes10.0
macos appleitunes10.0.1
macos appleitunes10.1
macos appleitunes10.1.1
macos appleitunes10.1.1.4
macos appleitunes10.1.2
macos appleitunes10.2
macos appleitunes10.2.2.12
macos appleitunes10.3
macos appleitunes10.3.1
macos appleitunes10.4
macos appleitunes10.4.0.80
macos appleitunes10.4.1
macos appleitunes10.4.1.10
macos appleitunes10.5
macos appleitunes10.5.1
macos appleitunes10.5.1.42
macos appleitunes10.5.2
macos appleitunes10.5.3
macos appleitunes10.6

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.