National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1983

Overview

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the (1) PredictorVSetField function for TIFF or (2) CFAllocatorAllocate function for GIF, as used in applications that use ImageIO or AppKit. NOTE: the BMP vector has been re-assigned to CVE-2006-2238 because it affects a separate product family.

Impact

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-132A

Name: TA06-132A

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1452

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/1452

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016067

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016067

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20077

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

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: BID

Name: 17634

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17634

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.security-protocols.com/sp-x30-advisory.php

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.security-protocols.com/sp-x30-advisory.php

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.security-protocols.com/sp-x28-advisory.php

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.security-protocols.com/sp-x28-advisory.php

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3233

Hyperlink:http://www.security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3233

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 24822

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/24822

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 24821

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/24821

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19686

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19686

External Source: XF

Name: macosx-predictorvsetfield-bo(25951)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25951

External Source: XF

Name: macosx-cfallocatorallocate-bo(25949)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25949

External Source: BID

Name: 17951

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

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1779

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