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Secunia Advisory SA29130

Apple Mac OS X "ipcomp6_input()" Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory SA29130
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Release Date 2008-02-27
Last Update 2008-05-29
   
Popularity 7,893 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Apple Macintosh OS X
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-0177 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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
Apply Security Update 2008-003.

Provided and/or discovered by
Discovered in the KAME Project by Shoichi Sakane. Reported in Mac OS X by mu-b.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1897

Digit-Labs:
http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/xnu-ipv6-ipcomp.c

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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