National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1452

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in Preview in Apple Mac OS 10.4 up to 10.4.6 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a deep directory hierarchy.

Impact

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

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: Apple, Mac OS X, 10.4.6 (2006-003)}

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-132A

Name: TA06-132A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2006-05-11

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1779

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779

External Source: XF

Name: macos-preview-directory-bo(26422)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26422

External Source: BID

Name: 17951

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 25596

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/25596

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016076

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016076

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20077

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20077