National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1030

Overview

Integer overflow in the CFDataReplaceBytes function in the CFData API in CoreFoundation in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid length argument, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-150A

Name: TA08-150A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html

External Source: XF

Name: macosx-corefoundation-cfdatareplacebytes-bo(42709)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42709

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1697

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697

External Source: BID

Name: 29491

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29491

External Source: BID

Name: 29412

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29412

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020135

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1020135

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30430

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30430

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2008-05-28

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