Description
Finder 10.4.6 on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long volume name in a DMG disk image, which results in memory corruption.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Apple Mac OSX 10.4.8 - Apple Finder DMG Volume Name Memory Corruption (PoC) EDB-3110 · dos · Jan 9, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- APPLE-SA-2007-02-15 vendor-advisory
- ADV-2007-0140 vdb-entry
- TA07-047A third-party-advisory
- 24198 third-party-advisory
- 32714 vdb-entry
- macos-finder-dos(31410) vdb-entry
- 21980 vdb-entry
- VU#240880 third-party-advisory
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102
- 20070111 DMA[2007-0107a] OmniWeb Javascript Alert Format String Vulnerabiity and DMA[2007-0109a] Apple Finder Disk Image Volume Label Overflow / DoS mailing-list
- http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2007-0109a%5D.txt
- http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-09-01-2007.html
- 1017662 vdb-entry