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Apple Mac OS X QuickDraw Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA23859
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Release Date:
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2007-01-25
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Last Update:
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2007-03-14
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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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-2007-0462 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
LMH has reported a vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in Apple QuickDraw and can be exploited to cause the application using the QuickDraw routines to crash, when a specially crafted PICT image is processed.
The vulnerability is reported in Mac OS X 10.4.8 (x86). Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to Mac OS X 10.4.9 or install Security Update 2007-003.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
Provided and/or discovered by:
LMH
Changelog:
2007-01-30: Added CVE reference.
2007-02-02: Added CVE reference.
2007-03-14: Updated "Solution" section.
Original Advisory:
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-23-01-2007.html
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