Secunia Advisory SA29130Apple Mac OS X "ipcomp6_input()" Denial of Service
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Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Apple 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 within the "ipcomp6_input()" function in bsd/netinet6/ipcomp_input.c when processing packets with an IPComp header. This can be exploited to crash a vulnerable system by sending a specially crafted IPv6 or IPSec packet. This is related to: SA28788 The vulnerability is reported in Mac OS X 10.5.1 and 10.5.2. Other versions may also be affected. Solution Provided and/or discovered by Other references Deep Links Do you have additional information related to this advisory?Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com
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