CVE-2006-1457

Severity

26%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

48%

Safari on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.6, when "Open `safe' files after downloading" is enabled, will automatically expand archives, which could allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an archive that contains a symlink.

Safari on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.6, when "Open `safe' files after downloading" is enabled, will automatically expand archives, which could allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an archive that contains a symlink.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 19 years ago

2006-05-12 21:02:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:30:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.6

10.4.6

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.6

10.4.6

References

APPLE-SA-2006-05-11

Patch

20077

1016069

VU#519473

US Government Resource

25598

17951

TA06-132A

US Government Resource

ADV-2006-1779

safari-archive-code-execution(26427)

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