Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4 denial of service

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4 (Operating System). This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

IPSec when used with VPN networks in Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors involving the "incorrect handling of error conditions".

The bug was discovered 03/01/2006. The weakness was presented 02/28/2006 by Ilja van Sprundel (OUSPG) with iDEFENSE (Website). The advisory is shared at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-0383 since 01/24/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 20990 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-001)), 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 l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115334 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2006-001 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2006-03-01)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (20990). See 1918, 26962, 26742 and 26741 for similar entries.

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Operating System

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Apple

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Mac OS X

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commercial

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end of life

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 20990
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-001)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Ilja van Sprundel (OUSPG)
Organization: iDEFENSE
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2006-0383 (🔍)
X-Force: 25025
Vulnerability Center: 10549 - Mac OS X 10.3-10.3.9 and 10.4-10.4.5 Remote DoS against VPN Connections, Medium
SecurityFocus: 16907 - Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2006-001 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 19064
OSVDB: 23643 - Apple Mac OS X IPSec VPN Error Condition Unspecified DoS
Vupen: ADV-2006-0791

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 07/08/2021 08:46
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (74), 06/15/2019 09:30 (6), 07/08/2021 08:46 (3)
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