Apple Cocoa applications vulnerable to denial of service via malformed TIFF image

Overview Apple Mac OS X applications using the Cocoa environment may quit due to an unhandled exception in TIFF image handling routines. Description Mac OS X applications may take advantage of the Cocoa programming environment, which is described by Apple as "an object-oriented application...

CVE-2005-1330

CVE-2005-1330 affects Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 AppKit: processing malformed TIFF images can cause NXSeek to offset incorrectly, leading to an unhandled exception and a denial-of-service (Cocoa application crash). The CERT/NVD entries describe the impact as an unauthenticated remote-triggered DoS via...