Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services server contains multiple buffer overflows

Overview

The Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services server contains multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

Description

The Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services server fails to properly validate service requests. A local attacker may be able to trigger the overflow by sending a specially crafted service request to a vulnerable system.

Apple states that this issue does not affect systems prior to Apple Mac OS X v10.4.

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Impact

This vulnerability may allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

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Solution

Apple has addressed this issue with Apple Security Update 2006-007.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: November 29, 2006

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

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

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References

• <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/23155/&gt;

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported in Apple Security Update 2006-007.

This document was written by Katie Steiner.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2006-4398
Severity Metric:	8.80 Date Public: