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Secunia Advisory SA29469

Apple Aperture/iPhoto DNG Image Parsing Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory SA29469
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Release Date 2008-03-21
   
Popularity 9,297 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Apple Aperture 2.x
Apple iLife iPhoto 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-0987 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Aperture and iPhoto, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing of DNG (Adobe Digital Negative) image files and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability has been reported in Aperture 2 and iPhoto 7.1.2 with iLife Support 8.2.


Solution
Apply patch.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Clint Ruoho, Laconic Security.

Original Advisory
Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1232

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