Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to execute arbitrary commands, cause a denial of service, disclose sensitive information, or bypass security restrictions.
The first issue is caused by an implementation error in the Alias Manager that does not show identically-named files contained in identically-named mounted disk images, which could be exploited by an attacker to mislead a user into opening a malicious program by enticing that user to mount two identically-named disk images [...]
Affected Products
Apple Mac OS X version 10.3.9
Apple Mac OS X Server version 10.3.9
Apple Mac OS X version 10.4.9
Apple Mac OS X Server version 10.4.9
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Greg Bolsinga (Blurb), Michael Lynn (Juniper Networks), iDefense Labs and Chris Anley (NGSSoftware).
ChangeLog
2007-05-25 : Initial release
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