PT-2006-5211 · Apple · Macos X

Dr. Stephen N. Henson · Published 2006-11-30 · Updated 2011-03-08 · CVE-2006-4408

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple Mac OS X versions 10.4 through 10.4.8

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to resource consumption. This occurs when certain public key values in an X.509 certificate require extra resources during signature verification.

Recommendations For Apple Mac OS X versions 10.4 through 10.4.8, update to a version later than 10.4.8 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-4408

Affected Products

Macos X

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4408 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/30730 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017298 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/21335 · Note