CVE-2008-4217

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Integer signedness error in BOM in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the headers in a crafted CPIO archive, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow.

Integer signedness error in BOM in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the headers in a crafted CPIO archive, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-17 01:30:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-03-08 03:12:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11

10.4.11

Apple Mac OS X 10.5

10.5

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.1

10.5.1

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.2

10.5.2

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.3

10.5.3

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.4

10.5.4

Apple Mac OS X

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.11

10.4.11

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5

10.5

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.1

10.5.1

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.2

10.5.2

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.3

10.5.3

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.4

10.5.4

Apple Mac OS X Server

References

APPLE-SA-2008-12-15

Vendor Advisory

33179

Vendor Advisory

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338

Vendor Advisory

32839

32876

1021399

TA08-350A

US Government Resource

ADV-2008-3444

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