FrSIRT - Apple Mac OS X UFS Filesystem "ffs_mountfs()" Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Apple Mac OS X UFS Filesystem "ffs_mountfs()" Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Apple Mac OS X UFS Filesystem "ffs_mountfs()" Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-0141
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0229
Rated as : Critical

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

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/0141
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-10-01-2007.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

Credits

Vulnerability reported by LMH

ChangeLog

2007-01-11 : Initial release
2007-03-13 : Updated Solution

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