Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2008-0988 First vendor Publication 2008-03-18
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2011-03-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0988

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1
Os 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
43390 Apple Mac OS X libc Libsystem strnstr API Crafted Argument Off-by-one

Mac OS X contains a flaw that may allow a denial of service. The issue is triggered when an application using the strnstr API reads one byte beyond the limit specified by the user, and will result in loss of availability for the application.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-03-19 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2008-002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28304
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28374
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079A.html
CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019661
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

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