PT-2005-3401 · Microsoft+1 · Office Word+2

Published 2005-08-19 · Updated 2008-09-10 · CVE-2005-2502

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AppKit versions 10.3.9 through 10.4.2

Description The issue allows external user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Microsoft Word file. This is due to a buffer overflow in AppKit, which is used in applications such as TextEdit.

Recommendations For versions 10.3.9 through 10.4.2, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent arbitrary code execution.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2502

Affected Products

Appkit

Office Word

Textedit

References · 6

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2502 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014695 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-229A.html · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/172948 · Note