National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1573
Original release date:06/02/2008
Last revised:07/14/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The BMP and GIF image decoding engine in ImageIO in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) via a crafted (1) BMP or (2) GIF image, which causes an out-of-bounds read.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-150A
Name: TA08-150A
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020144
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: macosx-imageio-information-disclosure(42721)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1882
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1697
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 29513
External Source: BID
Name: 29412
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30775
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30430
Type: Advisory
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2008-05-28
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2008-06-19
