Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station Network Interface Denial of Service - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station Network Interface Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory:	SA18319	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2006-01-06
Popularity:	6,167 views

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

OS:	Apple Airport Express Apple Airport Extreme

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CVE reference:	CVE-2005-3714

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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