Apple Mac OS X Finder denial of service
| macos-finder-dos (31410) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Apple Mac OS X is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption vulnerability in Finder when processing malformed DMG images with an overly long volume name. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a victim's application to crash, if the attacker could convince the victim to open a malicious DMG image file.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 4 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 3.1 |
| Exploitability: | Proof-Of-Concept |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Refer to Apple Security Update 2007-002 for update information. See Referneces.
References:
- Apple Mac OS X Web site: Apple - Mac OS X.
- Apple Security Update 2007-002: About Security Update 2007-002.
- DMA[2007-0109a]: Apple Finder Disk Image Volume Label Overflow / DoS.
- MOAB-09-01-2007: Apple Finder DMG Volume Name Memory Corruption.
- BID-21980: Apple Mac OS X Finder DMG Volume Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-0197: Finder 10.4.6 on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long volume name in a DMG disk image, which results in memory corruption.
- OSVDB ID: 32714: Mac OS X Finder DMG Disk Image Volume Name Memory Corruption
- SA24198: Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1017662: Mac OS X Finder Disk Image Buffer Overflow Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
- US-CERT VU#240880: Apple Mac OS X Finder DMG volume name buffer overflow
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-0140: Apple Mac OS X Finder and iChat Multiple Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Apple Finder 10.4.6
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.8
Reported:
Jan 09, 2007
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