Apple Mac OS X 10.4 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X 10.4. It has been classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2006-2277. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Operating System). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple Apple Mac OS X 10.4 applications might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted OpenEXR (.exr) image file, which triggers the crash when opening a folder using Finder, displaying the image in Safari, or using Preview to open the file.

The weakness was presented 04/29/2006 by Christian Mertes (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-2277 since 05/09/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (27790), SecurityFocus (BID 17768†) and OSVDB (27780†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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04/29/2006 🔍
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03/12/2015 +3136 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Christian Mertes
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2006-2277 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-2277
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-30133
SecurityFocus: 17768 - Apple Mac OS X ImageIO OpenEXR Image File Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 27780 - Apple Mac OS X Malformed EXR File Handling DoS

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

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Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 05/29/2025 14:11
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (49), 09/08/2017 09:17 (8), 07/12/2021 09:35 (3), 05/29/2025 14:11 (19)
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