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Secunia Advisory SA27884

Mac OS X Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA27884
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Release Date 2007-12-05
Last Update 2007-12-07
   
Popularity 13,113 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Operating System
Apple Macintosh OS X
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-6261 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/xnu-macho-dos.c

Deep Links
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Subject: Mac OS X Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
 
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