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Apple Mail Command Execution Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27785  
Release Date: 2007-11-22
Last Update: 2007-12-18

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Apple Macintosh OS X


CVE reference:CVE-2007-6165 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Apple Mail, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of unsafe file types in email attachments. This can be exploited via a specially crafted email containing an attachment of an ostensibly safe file type (e.g. ".jpg") to execute arbitrary shell commands when the attachment is double-clicked.

This is related to vulnerability #8 in:
SA19064

The vulnerability is reported in Apple Mail included in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Solution:
Apply Security Update 2007-009.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

Provided and/or discovered by:
Originally discovered in Mac OS X 10.4 and reported in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 by heise Security.

Changelog:
2007-11-28: Added link to US-CERT.
2007-12-03: Added CVE reference.
2007-12-18: Updated "Solution" section.

Original Advisory:
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/99257

Other References:
SA19064:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19064/

US-CERT VU#433819:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/433819



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