National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0734

Overview

fsck, as used by the AirPort Disk feature of the AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n before Firmware Update 7.1, and by Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 through 10.4.9, does not properly enforce password protection of a USB hard drive, which allows context-dependent attackers to list arbitrary directories or execute arbitrary code, resulting from memory corruption.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-109A

Name: TA07-109A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305366

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305366

External Source: XF

Name: airportextreme-airportdisk-info-disclosure(33527)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33527

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1470

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1308

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1308

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017942

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017942

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017889

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017889

External Source: BID

Name: 23569

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23569

External Source: BID

Name: 23396

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23396

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24966

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24966

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24830

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24830

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-04-19

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-04-09

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00000.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391