PT-2009-3530 · Microsoft+1 · Office+1

Published 2009-05-13 · Updated 2009-05-16 · CVE-2009-0944

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple Mac OS X versions 10.4.11 through 10.5.6

Description The issue is related to the Microsoft Office Spotlight Importer in Spotlight, which does not properly validate Microsoft Office files. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via a file that triggers memory corruption.

Recommendations For Apple Mac OS X versions 10.4.11 through 10.5.6, update to version 10.5.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-0944

Affected Products

Macos X

Office

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0944 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022215 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/34926 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/34939 · Note