A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to an integer overflow error in the "ffs_mountfs()" function when handling malformed images, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or compromise an affected system by tricking a user into mounting a specially crafted image or visiting a malicious web page using Safari.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by LMH
ChangeLog
2007-01-11 : Initial release
2007-03-13 : Updated Solution
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