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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-4408
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CVE-2006-4408

Description:
The Security Framework in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via certain public key values in an X.509 certificate that requires extra resources during signature verification. NOTE: this issue may be similar to CVE-2006-2940.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

ST
  1017298

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA23155

OSVDB
  30730

CONFIRM
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829

CERT
  http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html

BID
  21335

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html


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