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Apple Mac OS X iChat Bonjour Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA23945
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Release Date:
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2007-01-31
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Last Update:
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2007-02-19
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Popularity:
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12,882 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From local network
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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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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-0614
CVE-2007-0613
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Description:
LMH has reported a vulnerability in Apple iChat, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in iChat agent using Bonjour within the processing of TXT key hashes. This can be exploited to cause the application to crash by broadcasting a specially crafted TXT key hash.
The vulnerability is reported in iChat 3.1.6 (v441), InstantMessage framework v428 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 (x86). Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Apply Security Update 2007-002.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102
Provided and/or discovered by:
LMH
Changelog:
2007-02-01: Added CVE reference.
2007-02-02: Added CVE reference.
2007-02-19: Updated "Solution" section.
Original Advisory:
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-29-01-2007.html
Other References:
Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102
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