PT-2006-5200 · Apple · Type Services (Ats) Server+1

Published 2006-11-30 · Updated 2011-03-08 · CVE-2006-4396

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mac OS X versions prior to 10.4.9

Description The issue concerns the Apple Type Services (ATS) server, which does not securely create log files. This allows local users to create and modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors, possibly relating to a symlink attack.

Recommendations For Mac OS X versions prior to 10.4.9, update to version 10.4.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-4396

Affected Products

Type Services (Ats) Server

Macos X

References · 10

• http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4396 · Security Note
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/30739 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017301 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/323424 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/21335 · Note