National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0017
Original release date:02/13/2009
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
csregprinter in the Printing component in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6 does not properly handle error conditions, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors that trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2009-02-12
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 33811
External Source: BID
Name: 33759
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0422
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33937