Vulnerability Note VU#800296

Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services server contains multiple buffer overflows

Overview

The Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services server contains multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

I. Description

The Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services server fails to properly validate service requests. A local attacker may be able to trigger the overflow by sending a specially crafted service request to a vulnerable system.

Apple states that this issue does not affect systems prior to Apple Mac OS X v10.4.

II. Impact

This vulnerability may allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

III. Solution

Apple has addressed this issue with Apple Security Update 2006-007.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Apple Computer, Inc.	Vulnerable	29-Nov-2006

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
http://secunia.com/advisories/23155/

Credit

This vulnerability was reported in Apple Security Update 2006-007.

This document was written by Katie Steiner.

Other Information

Date Public:	2006-11-28
Date First Published:	2006-11-30
Date Last Updated:	2006-12-20
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):	CVE-2006-4398
NVD-ID(s):	CVE-2006-4398
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	8.80
Document Revision:	13

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