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Apple Airport Buffer Overflow and Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA22068
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Release Date:
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2006-09-22
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Popularity:
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11,882 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Apple Macintosh OS X
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3507
CVE-2006-3508
CVE-2006-3509
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in AirPort, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to compromise a vulnerable system.
1) Two boundary errors exist in the handling of malformed wireless network frames. These can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a malicious frame to the system, and may allow arbitrary code execution with system privileges.
The vulnerability affects the following products equipped with wireless:
* Power Mac
* PowerBook
* iBook
* iMac
* Mac Pro
* Xserve
* PowerPC-based Mac mini
2) A boundary error exists in the AirPort wireless driver's handling of scan cache updates. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by sending a malicious frame to the system and may lead to a system crash, privilege elevation, or execution of arbitrary code with system privileges.
3) An integer overflow exist in the AirPort wireless drivers API for third-party software, which may lead to a buffer overflow in applications using the API. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by sending a malicious frame to the system and could crash the application or lead to arbitrary code execution with privileges of the user running the application.
Vulnerabilities #2 and #3 affect Intel-based Mac mini, MacBook, and MacBook Pro equipped with wireless and does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X v10.4.
Solution:
Apply Security Update 2006-005 or AirPort Update 2006-001:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Original Advisory:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304420
Other References:
US-CERT VU#563492:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/563492
US-CERT VU#589540:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/589540
US-CERT VU#867796:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/867796
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