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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Operating System). This affects some unknown processing of the component AFP Server. 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:
AFP Server in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service (crash) via an invalid AFP request that triggers an unchecked error condition.
The bug was discovered 08/01/2006. The weakness was released 07/14/2006 by Gael Delalleau (iDefense) with Mozilla Corporation as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). It is possible to read the advisory at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-3496 since 07/10/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.
The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22125 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-004)), 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 115383 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2006-004 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2006-08-01)).
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28137) and Tenable (22125). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 1998, 25512, 26669 and 25873.
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Nessus ID: 22125
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-004)
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: kb.cert.org
Researcher: Gael Delalleau (iDefense)
Organization: Mozilla Corporation
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2006-3496 (🔍)
X-Force: 28137
SecurityTracker: 1016620
Vulnerability Center: 12437 - Apple Mac OS X AFP Denial of Service via Invalid AFP Request, Medium
SecurityFocus: 19289 - Apple Mac OS X Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21253 - Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 27733 - Apple Mac OS X AFP Server Malformed Request DoS
Vupen: ADV-2006-3101
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 03/12/2015 14:25Updated: 06/23/2019 21:17
Changes: 03/12/2015 14:25 (77), 06/23/2019 21:17 (17)
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