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Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station Network Interface Denial of Service

Secunia Advisory:	SA18319
Release Date:	2006-01-06

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

OS:	Apple Airport Express Apple Airport Extreme


CVE reference:	CVE-2005-3714 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Apple AirPort Extreme, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the base station when handling certain network packets. This can be exploited to cause the base station's network interface to stop responding via specially crafted network packets. Solution: Apply updated firmware. AirPort Extreme Firmware Update 5.7 (Mac OS X): http://www.apple.com/support/download...extremefirmwareupdate57formacosx.html AirPort Extreme Firmware Update 5.7 (Windows): http://www.apple.com/support/download...xtremefirmwareupdate57forwindows.html AirPort Express Firmware Update 6.3 (Mac OS X): http://www.apple.com/support/download...expressfirmwareupdate63formacosx.html AirPort Express Firmware Update 6.3 (Windows): http://www.apple.com/support/download...xpressfirmwareupdate63forwindows.html Provided and/or discovered by: The vendor credits Michael Zanetta, NETwork Security Consortium. Original Advisory: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303072



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