CVE-2008-3434 Information

Description

Apple iTunes before 10.5.1 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011/Nov/msg00003.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5030 http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco20Amato20-20evilgrade20-20ENG.pdf http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A17136