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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4.8 (Operating System). It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function ffs_mountfs
of the component UFS. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a numeric error vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-189. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Integer overflow in the ffs_mountfs function in Mac OS X 10.4.8 and FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted DMG image that causes "allocation of a negative size buffer" leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2006-5679. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.
The bug was discovered 01/10/2007. The weakness was shared 01/11/2007 by LMH (Website). The advisory is shared for download at projects.info-pull.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2007-0229 since 01/12/2007. The attack needs to be done within the local network. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.
After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is possible to download the exploit at projects.info-pull.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 24811 (Mac OS X < 10.4.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-003)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context c. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115527 (Apple Mac OS X 10.4.9 and Security Update 2007-003 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2007-03-13)).
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at apple.com. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (31409) and Tenable (24811). The entries 2060, 2621, 2709 and 2832 are related to this item.
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Class: Numeric errorCWE: CWE-189
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Nessus ID: 24811
Nessus Name: Mac OS X < 10.4.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-003)
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Patch: apple.com
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: projects.info-pull.com
Researcher: LMH
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-0229 (🔍)
X-Force: 31409 - Apple Mac OS X ffs_mountfs() buffer overflow, High Risk
SecurityTracker: 1017751
Vulnerability Center: 14629 - FreeBSD ffs_mountfs Function Integer Overflow via Crafted DMG Image, Medium
SecurityFocus: 21993 - Apple Mac OS X DMG UFS FFS_MountFS Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 23703 - Apple Mac OS X UFS ffs_mountfs() Integer Overflow, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 32684 - Apple Mac OS X UFS ffs_mountfs() Local Overflow
Vupen: ADV-2007-0141
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entry
Created: 01/16/2007 14:17Updated: 07/16/2019 17:10
Changes: 01/16/2007 14:17 (106), 07/16/2019 17:10 (2)
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