National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0999

Overview

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.2 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of servicr (crash) via a crafted Universal Disc Format (UDF) disk image, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-079A

Name: TA08-079A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079A.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2008-03-18

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

External Source: XF

Name: macos-udf-dos(41280)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41280

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1019669

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019669

External Source: BID

Name: 28389

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28389

External Source: BID

Name: 28304

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28304

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0924

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29420

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562