CVE-2006-4403

Severity

40%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

81%

The FTP server in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 and earlier, when FTP Access is enabled, will crash when a login failure occurs with a valid user name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and enumerate valid usernames.

The FTP server in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 and earlier, when FTP Access is enabled, will crash when a login failure occurs with a valid user name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and enumerate valid usernames.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-11-30 16:28:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:33:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

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

APPLE-SA-2006-11-28

23155

Vendor Advisory

1017303

VU#371648

US Government Resource

30734

21335

TA06-333A

US Government Resource

ADV-2006-4750

macos-ftp-server-login-dos(30621)

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