FrSIRT - Apple Mac OS X Finder and iChat Multiple Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Apple Mac OS X Finder and iChat Multiple Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Title : Apple Mac OS X Finder and iChat Multiple Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-0140
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0023 - CVE-2007-0197 - CVE-2007-0614 - CVE-2007-0710
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-01-11

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary commands.

The first issue is due to an error in Finder when handling DMG images containing an overly long volume name, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or potentially execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into mounting a specially crafted image or visiting a malicious web page [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/0140
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-09-01-2007.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Kevin Finisterre

ChangeLog

2007-01-11 : Initial release
2007-02-15 : Updated Solution

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