Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4 CoreFoundation heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component CoreFoundation. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2005-2757. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4 (Operating System) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component CoreFoundation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Heap-based buffer overflow in CoreFoundation in Mac OS X and OS X Server 10.4 through 10.4.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors involving "validation of URLs."

The bug was discovered 11/29/2005. The weakness was presented 11/29/2005 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at docs.info.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-2757 since 08/30/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 20249 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2005-009)), 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 115305 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2005-009 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2005-11-29)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 3892.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (23329), Tenable (20249), SecurityFocus (BID 15647†), OSVDB (21271†) and Secunia (SA17813†). See VDB-1786, VDB-1813, VDB-1846 and VDB-1844 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 20249
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2005-009)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: docs.info.apple.com⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2005-2757 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-2757
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-27203
X-Force: 23329
SecurityFocus: 15647 - RETIRED: Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2005-009 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 17813 - Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 21271 - Apple Mac OS X CoreFoundation Crafted URL Code Execution
SecurityTracker: 1015285
Vulnerability Center: 10348 - Mac OS X Core Foundation Buffer Overflow, Critical
Vupen: ADV-2005-2659

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 06/14/2019 09:27
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (74), 06/14/2019 09:27 (10)
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