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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6062

Original release date:11/22/2006
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed UDTO HFS+ disk image, such as with "bad sectors," which triggers memory corruption.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:5.1 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
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

Solution

Exploitation attempts may result in a denial-of-service condition.}

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-072A
Name: TA07-072A
External Source: XF
Name: macosx-udtohfs-dos(30463)
External Source: XF
Name: macosx-dmg-code-execution(30440)
External Source: BID
Name: 21236
External Source: BID
Name: 21201
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4653
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4629
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017260
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23062
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23012
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-21-11-2006.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017751
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 30510
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0930
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24479
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2007-03-13
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

Vulnerable software and versions

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