Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Apple Help Viewer vulnerable to buffer overflow
Informations
Name VU#566875 First vendor Publication 2008-05-29
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2008-05-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

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:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#566875

Apple Help Viewer vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview

A vulnerability in the way Apple Help Viewer handles specially crafted URLs may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.

I. Description

According to Apple Security Update 2008-003:

    An integer underflow in Help Viewer's handling of help:topic URLs may result in a buffer overflow. Accessing a malicious help:topic URL may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.


Note that this issue affects systems running Mac OS X prior to version 10.5.

II. Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.

III. Solution

Apply Update

This issue is addressed in Apple Security Update 2008-003. An update for Mac OS X is available on Apple Downloads and via Software Update.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate Updated
Apple Computer, Inc.Vulnerable29-May-2008

References


http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/May/msg00001.html

Credit

This issue was reported in Apple Security Update 2008-003. Apple credits Paul Haddad of PTH with reporting this issue.

This document was written by Chris Taschner.

Other Information

Date Public05/28/2008
Date First Published05/29/2008 03:00:55 PM
Date Last Updated05/29/2008
CERT Advisory 
CVE NameCVE-2008-1034
US-CERT Technical Alerts 
Metric8.68
Document Revision6

Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/566875

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 38

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2010-05-12 Name : Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2008-003
File : nvt/macosx_upd_10_5_3_secupd_2008-003.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
45703 Apple Mac OS X Help Viewer help:topic URL Handling Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-05-29 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_10_5_3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-29 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2008-003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO