Apple Mac OS X up to 10.3 Certificates memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.3 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Certificates. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-0654. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.3 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Certificates. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.4 accesses uninitialized memory locations during the processing of X.509 certificates, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted certificate.

The weakness was disclosed 05/10/2012 by Aaron Sigel (Paul) with Aalto University (Website). The advisory is available at lists.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-0654 since 01/12/2012. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 59066 (Mac OS X 10.7.x < 10.7.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (BEAST)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 120219 (Apple Mac OS X Lion v10.7.4 and Security Update 2012-002 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2012-05-09-1)).

Upgrading to version 10.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (75485), Tenable (59066), SecurityFocus (BID 53445†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-44744†). The entries VDB-4791, VDB-5399, VDB-5404 and VDB-5409 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Base Score: 7.3
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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 59066
Nessus Name: Mac OS X 10.7.x < 10.7.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (BEAST)
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OpenVAS ID: 802794
OpenVAS Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (2012-002)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.4

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05/09/2012 +118 days 🔍
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06/02/2014 +753 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +294 days 🔍
12/01/2021 +2445 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: lists.apple.com
Researcher: Aaron Sigel (Paul)
Organization: Aalto University
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2012-0654 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-0654
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-60722
X-Force: 75485
SecurityFocus: 53445 - RETIRED: Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2012-002 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Center: 44744 - Apple Mac OS X <10.7.4 Remote Code Execution or DoS in libsecurity, Medium

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

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 12/01/2021 18:55
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (67), 05/29/2017 10:31 (8), 12/01/2021 18:55 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:055:103

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