PT-2010-3076 · Apple · Macos X

Filipp Lepalaan · Published 2010-06-17 · Updated 2010-06-18 · CVE-2010-1379

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 prior to 10.6.4

Description The issue is related to the Printer Setup in Apple Mac OS X, where it does not properly interpret character encoding. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a printing failure, by deploying a printing device with a Unicode character in its printing-service name.

Recommendations For Apple Mac OS X versions prior to 10.6.4, update to version 10.6.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-1379

Affected Products

Macos X

References · 7

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1379 · Security Note
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/40871 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40220 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1024103 · Note