23872 : Apple Mac OS X Mail.app Attachment AppleDouble Header Processing Buffer Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
4	584	over 5 years ago	about 1 year ago	2 times	90%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2006-03-10	2006-03-14

Keywords

Security Update 2006-002

Description

A remote overflow exists in Mac OS X Mail.app. The Mail.app facility fails to handle overly long Real Name entries resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted attachment in the AppleDouble format, an attacker can cause the execution of arbitrary code on a user's system resulting in a loss of integrity and/or availability.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Technical

This issue is present in Apple Mail.app when 'Security Update 2006-001' is applied.

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, vendor has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Apple Computer, Inc.	Mac OS X	10.4.5
		10.4.4
		10.4.3
		10.4.2
		10.4.1
		10.4
	Mac OS X Server	10.4
		10.4.1
		10.4.2
		10.4.3
		10.4.4
		10.4.5

References

Security Tracker: 1015762
Milw0rm: 1583
Exploit Database: 1583
Bugtraq ID: 17081
Secunia Advisory ID: 19129
CVE ID: 2006-0396 (see also: NVD)
SCIP VulDB ID: 2079 2080
Related OSVDB ID: 23869 23870 23871 23873
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2006-0949
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/0739.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303453
Generic Informational URL: http://rfc.net/rfc1740.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2006-0313a].txt
Generic Exploit URL: http://www.digitalmunition.com/SuperTastey.pl
Keyword: Security Update 2006-002

Tools & Filters

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	3474 3475

Credit

Kevin Finisterre - kfdigitalmunition.com -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.1
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-03-15 | Disagree?

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