CVE-2008-4116: Apple iTunes

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 11.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Apple QuickTime 7.5.5 and iTunes 8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long type attribute in a quicktime tag (1) on a web page or embedded in a (2) .mp4 or (3) .mov file, possibly related to the Check_stack_cookie function and an off-by-one error that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

  • Apple iTunes: version 8.0 only
  • Apple Quicktime: version 7.5.5 only

Published 2008-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.