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Apple TV Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA32121
Release Date: 2008-10-03
Popularity: 1,344 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Apple TV 1.x
Apple TV 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-4674
CVE-2008-3626
CVE-2008-3629


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple TV, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An error in the processing of movie atoms can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow.

For more information see vulnerability #8 in:
SA27523

2) An error in the processing of STSZ atoms can be exploited to corrupt memory.

For more information see vulnerability #6 in:
SA31821

Solution:
Update to version 2.2.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits:
1) Cody Pierce, TippingPoint DVLabs
2) Reported by an anonymous person via ZDI.

Original Advisory:
APPLE-SA-2008-10-02:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00000.html

Other References:
SA27523:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27523/

SA31821:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31821/


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