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. |
Impact
This vulnerability may allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with system privileges. |
Solution
Apple has addressed this issue with Apple Security Update 2006-007. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
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: | 2006-11-28 |
| Date First Published: | 2006-11-30 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2006-12-20 15:34 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 13 |