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Apple Computer Inc. Information for VU#650937

Date Notified01/20/2003
Date Modified08/20/2003 04:12:16 PM
Status SummaryVulnerable

Vendor Statement

Apple: Not Vulnerable. The underlying code in Mac OS X is not susceptible to the vulnerability described in this notice.

US-CERT Addendum

Based on source code analysis, cvs-29 from the Darwin Projects Directory appears to be vulnerable. However, the Apple OS X malloc(3) implementation (phkmalloc) may safely handle the double-free condition. If malloc(3) is configured such that all warnings are fatal ("A" option), the impact of this vulnerability on Darwin cvs-29 may be limited to a denial of service.

Darwin cvs-29 may not be the same cvs code that is shipped with the Apple OS X Developer Tools package.

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