National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1717
Original release date:06/05/2009
Last revised:06/29/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in Terminal in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted size value in a CSI[4 xterm resize escape sequence that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 35182
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090602 TPTI-09-04: Apple Terminal xterm Resize Escape Sequence Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022322
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: macos-terminal-bo(50982)
External Source: MISC
Name: http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/advisory/TPTI-09-04