PT-2006-2458 · Apple · Mail+1

Published 2006-05-12 · Updated 2017-07-20 · CVE-2006-1450

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mail in Apple Mac OS X versions 10.3.9 through 10.4.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an enriched text e-mail message with invalid color information, causing Mail to allocate and initialize arbitrary classes.

Recommendations For Mac OS X versions 10.3.9 through 10.4.6, consider disabling the handling of enriched text e-mail messages in Mail until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-1450

Affected Products

Macos X

Mail

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1450 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html · Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26419 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/17951 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html · Note
• http://osvdb.org/25594 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20077 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016078 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779 · Note