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Mac OS X Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27884
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Release Date:
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2007-12-05
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Last Update:
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2007-12-07
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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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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| OS: | Apple Macintosh OS X
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2007-6261 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in the handling of Mach-O binaries and can be exploited to render the system unresponsive.
The vulnerability is confirmed in Mac OS X 10.4.11 and reported in 10.5.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.
Provided and/or discovered by:
mu-b
Changelog:
2007-12-07: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/xnu-macho-dos.c
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