Buffer overflow in CoreAudio, as used in Apple iTunes before 10.5, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) stream.

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.7 that is older than version 10.7.3.  The newer version contains numerous security-related fixes for the following components :

  - Address Book
  - Apache
  - ATS
  - CFNetwork
 - CoreMedia
 - CoreText
 - CoreUI
 - curl
 - Data Security
 - dovecot
 - filecmds
 - ImageIO
 - Internet Sharing
 - Libinfo
 - libresolv
 - libsecurity
 - OpenGL
 - PHP
 - QuickTime
 - Subversion
 - Time Machine
 - WebDAV Sharing
 - Webmail
 - X11

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.6 that does not have Security Update 2012-001 applied. This update contains multiple security-related fixes for the following components :

  - Apache
  - ATS
  - ColorSync
  - CoreAudio
  - CoreMedia
  - CoreText
  - curl
  - Data Security
  - dovecot
  - filecmds
  - libresolv
  - libsecurity
  - OpenGL
  - PHP
  - QuickTime
  - SquirrelMail
  - Subversion
  - Tomcat
  - X11

The remote host has iTunes installed, a popular media player for Windows and Mac OS. 

Versions of iTunes earlier than 10.5 are potentially affected by numerous issues in the following components :

  - CoreFoundation

  - ColorSync

  - CoreAudio

  - CoreMedia

  - ImageIO

  - WebKit

The version of Apple iTunes on the remote host is prior to version 10.5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the CoreAudio, CoreFoundation, CoreMedia, ColorSync, ImageIO, and WebKit components. Note that these only affect iTunes for Windows.

The version of Apple iTunes installed on the remote Windows host is older than 10.5. Thus, it is reportedly affected by numerous issues in the following components :

  - CoreFoundation
  - ColorSync
  - CoreAudio
  - CoreMedia
  - ImageIO
  - WebKit

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
6303	Mac OS X 10.7 < 10.7.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Generic	critical
57798	Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2012-001) (BEAST)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
6037	iTunes < 10.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	high
56470	Apple iTunes < 10.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (uncredentialed check)	Nessus	Peer-To-Peer File Sharing	high
56469	Apple iTunes < 10.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (credentialed check)	Nessus	Windows	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2011-3252

high

Tenable Plugins

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critical

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