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Apple Mac OS X IPv6 Type 0 Route Headers Denial of Service

Secunia Advisory:	SA25770
Release Date:	2007-06-21

Critical:	Moderately critical
Impact:	DoS
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

OS:	Apple Macintosh OS X


CVE reference:	CVE-2007-2242 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: A security issue has been reported in Apple Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The security issue is caused due to an error within the processing of packets with IPv6 type 0 route headers. This can be exploited to cause a DoS due to high network traffic by sending specially crafted IPv6 packets to vulnerable systems. The security issue is reported in versions prior to Mac OS X 10.4.10. NOTE: The security issue does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X 10.4. Solution: Update to version 10.4.10. Mac OS X 10.4.10 Update (PPC): http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10410updateppc.html Mac OS X 10.4.10 Combo Update (PPC): http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10410comboupdateppc.html Mac OS X 10.4.10 Update (Intel): http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10410updateintel.html Mac OS X 10.4.10 Combo Update (Intel): http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10410comboupdateintel.html Mac OS X Server 10.4.10 Update (PPC): http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxserver10410updateppc.html Mac OS X Server 10.4.10 Combo Update (PPC): http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxserver10410comboupdateppc.html Mac OS X Server 10.4.10 Combo Update (Universal): http://www.apple.com/support/download...xserver10410comboupdateuniversal.html Provided and/or discovered by: Philippe Biondi and Arnaud Ebalard Original Advisory: Apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305712 http://www.secdev.org/conf/IPv6_RH_security-csw07.pdf



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