CVE-2008-0988

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Off-by-one error in the Libsystem strnstr API in libc on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted arguments that trigger a buffer over-read.

Off-by-one error in the Libsystem strnstr API in libc on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted arguments that trigger a buffer over-read.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 16 years ago

2008-03-18 23:44:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-03-08 03:05:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11

10.4.11

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.11

10.4.11

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

APPLE-SA-2008-03-18

Patch

29420

28304

28374

1019661

TA08-079A

US Government Resource

ADV-2008-0924

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