National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4269
Original release date:11/15/2007
Last revised:02/29/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in the Networking component in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted AppleTalk Session Protocol (ASP) message on an AppleTalk socket, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-319A
Name: TA07-319A
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2007-11-14
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: macosx-networking-appletalk-bo(38473)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3868
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 26444
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018950
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27643
Type: Advisory
External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20071114 Apple Mac OS X AppleTalk ASP Message Kernel Heap Overflow Vulnerability
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041