PT-2009-5191 · Apple · Macos X+1

Nikita Zhuk + 1 · Published 2009-11-10 · Updated 2009-11-17 · CVE-2009-2833

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 International Components for Unicode in Apple Mac OS X version 10.5.8

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via unspecified vectors in the UCCompareTextDefault API.

Recommendations For International Components for Unicode in Apple Mac OS X version 10.5.8, consider disabling the UCCompareTextDefault API as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2833

Affected Products

International Components For Unicode

Macos X

References · 5

• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/36956 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2833 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 · Note