National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0391

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in the BOM framework in Mac OS X 10.x before 10.3.9 and 10.4 before 10.4.5 allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite or create arbitrary files via an archive that is handled by BOMArchiveHelper.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-062A

Name: TA06-062A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20060302 Apple MacOS X BOMArchiveHelper Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=399

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2006-03-01

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-0791

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791

External Source: BID

Name: 16907

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16907

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 23641

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/23641

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19064

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19064

External Source: XF

Name: macosx-bom-directory-traversal(25023)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25023

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382