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Secunia Advisory SA23012

Apple Mac OS X UDIF Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory SA23012
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2006-11-21
Last Update 2007-03-14
   
Popularity 42,336 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Apple Macintosh OS X

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-6061 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-6062 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

LMH has reported a vulnerability in 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 when handling corrupted DMG image structures and can be exploited to cause a kernel panic.

The vulnerability is reported in a fully patched Mac OS X (2006-11-20). Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Update to Mac OS X 10.4.9 or install Security Update 2007-003.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
Originally discovered by:
LMH

Additional research by:
Alastair Houghton

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-20-11-2006.html

Other references
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