PT-2012-2762 · Apple · Libsecurity+1

Published 2012-05-11 · Updated 2017-12-05 · CVE-2012-0655

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X versions prior to 10.7.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by conducting a spoofing or network-sniffing attack during communication with a site that uses a short key, due to the improper restriction of the length of RSA keys within X.509 certificates.

Recommendations For versions prior to 10.7.4, update to version 10.7.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-0655

Affected Products

Macos X

Libsecurity

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0655 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/53462 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/53445 · Note