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Apple Mac OS X Two Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16047
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Release Date:
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2005-07-13
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Popularity:
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10,048 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Manipulation of data
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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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or replace system widgets on a user's system.
1) A NULL pointer dereference error in the TCP/IP implementation can be exploited to crash the kernel via a specially crafted TCP/IP packet.
The vulnerability affects Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS X Server 10.4.
2) An error in the Dashboard can be exploited to install widgets with the same internal identifier (CFBundleIdentifier) as an Apple-supplied widgets thereby replacing it.
The vulnerability affects Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS X Server 10.4.
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