National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3497
Original release date:08/02/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in the "compression state handling" in Bom for Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.7 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Zip archive.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#514740
Name: VU#514740
US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-214A
Name: TA06-214A
External Source: BID
Name: 19289
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3101
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21253
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 27735
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2006-08-01
