National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1575
Original release date:06/02/2008
Last revised:03/07/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in the Apple Type Services (ATS) server in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted embedded font in a PDF document, related to memory corruption that occurs during printing.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
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; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-150A
Name: TA08-150A
Type: Patch Information
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2008-05-28
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: macosx-ats-code-execution(42707)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1697
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 29492
External Source: BID
Name: 29412
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020133
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30430
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)