CVE-2006-1457 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-1457
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Description: Safari on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.6, when "Open `safe' files after downloading" is enabled, will automatically expand archives, which could allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an archive that contains a symlink.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26427 ST 1016069 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20077 OSVDB 25598 CERT-VN 519473 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html BID 17951 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html

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