Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4.5 File System memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4.5. This affects an unknown part of the component File System. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-0384. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.4.5 (Operating System). This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component File System. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

automount in Mac OS X 10.4.5 and earlier allows remote file servers to cause a denial of service (unresponsiveness) or execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that cause automount to "mount file systems with reserved names".

The bug was discovered 03/03/2006. The weakness was shared 02/28/2006 by Ilja van Sprundel (iDefense) with iDEFENSE (Website). The advisory is available at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-0384 since 01/24/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not 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 databases at X-Force (25021), Tenable (20990), SecurityFocus (BID 16907†), OSVDB (23640†) and Secunia (SA19064†). The entries VDB-1918, VDB-26962, VDB-26742 and VDB-26741 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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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 (iDefense)
Organization: iDEFENSE
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-0384 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-0384
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-28954
X-Force: 25021
SecurityFocus: 16907 - Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2006-001 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 19064
OSVDB: 23640 - Apple Mac OS X automount Reserved Name File System Mount
SecurityTracker: 1015709
Vulnerability Center: 10545 - Mac OS X 10.4.5 and Earlier Automount Remote DoS and Code Execution, High
Vupen: ADV-2006-0791

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/15/2019 09:23
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (76), 06/15/2019 09:23 (10)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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