CVE-2007-0229 in Mac OS Xinfo

Summary

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.

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Reservation

01/12/2007

Disclosure

01/12/2007

Entries

VDB-2824 (1)

CPE

ready

Exploit

Download

CVSS

6.3

EPSS

0.02985

Activities

Very Low

Sources