National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4690
Original release date:11/15/2007
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Double free vulnerability in the NFS component in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.10 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted AUTH_UNIX RPC packet.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; 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-nfs-authunix-code-execution(38477)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3868
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018949
External Source: BID
Name: 26444
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27643
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)