PT-2005-3627 · Mit+1 · Kerberos 5+2

Published 2005-10-25 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-2745

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mail.app in Mail for Apple Mac OS X version 10.3.9

Description The issue concerns Mail.app in Mail for Apple Mac OS X when using Kerberos 5 for SMTP authentication. It can include uninitialized memory in a message, potentially allowing remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Recommendations For Mail.app in Mail for Apple Mac OS X version 10.3.9, consider disabling Kerberos 5 for SMTP authentication as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2745

Affected Products

Kerberos 5

Macos X

Mail.App

References · 5

• http://auscert.org.au/5509 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16920 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2745 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml · Note