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Apple Mac OS X Mail Attachment Handling Command Injection Vulnerability |
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Title : Apple Mac OS X Mail Attachment Handling Command Injection Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-3958
CVE ID : CVE-2007-6165
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-22
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A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote attackers or malware to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an error in the Mail application that does not properly validate file types before being opened, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted email attachment with a trusted file extension (e.g. JPG) [...]
References
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3958
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/99257
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Heise Security.
ChangeLog
2007-11-22 : Initial release
2007-12-18 : Updated Solution
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