Threatpost reports that iTunes 10.5 fixes nearly 80 bugs

Apple has released a new version of its iTunes software, patching an enormous number of vulnerabilities in the popular music application. Version 10.5 of iTunes includes fixes for several dozen flaws in WebKit alone, and also has some updated functionality designed to support new components coming in iOS in the near future.

The latest release of the iTunes software, which Apple uses not only as a music-playing application but also a control system for iPods, iPhones and iPads, has fixes for vulnerabilities in a slew of components, including ColorSync, CoreFoundation, CoreAudio, CoreMedia and ImageIO. But the largest number of bugs fixed in iTunes 10.5 belongs to WebKit, the framework that underpins iTunes and the Safari browser. There are 73 separate bugs fixed in WebKit in iTunes 10.5, all but one of which are memory-corruption vulnerabilities. Several of the WebKit flaws could lead to remote code execution, while others only result in denial-of-service conditions or a crash of the iTunes software.

  Apple Fixes Nearly 80 Bugs in iTunes 10.5