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Apple Mac OS X QuickDraw Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA23859
Release Date: 2007-01-25
Last Update: 2007-03-14
Popularity: 10,691 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Apple Macintosh OS X

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0462


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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