CVE-2007-6261

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

Integer overflow in the load_threadstack function in the Mach-O loader (mach_loader.c) in the xnu kernel in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.5.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted Mach-O binary.

Integer overflow in the load_threadstack function in the Mach-O loader (mach_loader.c) in the xnu kernel in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.5.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted Mach-O binary.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 17 years ago

2007-12-06 02:46:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:29:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4

10.4

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.1

10.5.1

References

27884

Vendor Advisory

http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/xnu-macho-dos.c

Exploit

26700

ADV-2007-4095

macos-loadthreadstack-dos(38854)

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