PT-2011-2154 · Apple · Macos X

Alexander Strange · Published 2011-03-23 · Updated 2011-03-24 · CVE-2011-0173

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 prior to 10.6.7

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via format string specifiers in a display dialog or display alert command in a dialog in an AppleScript Studio application.

Recommendations For versions prior to 10.6.7, update to version 10.6.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-134

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-0173

Affected Products

Macos X

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0173 · Security Note
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory