Description
The _CFNetConnectionWillEnqueueRequests function in CFNetwork 129.19 on Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted HTTP 301 response, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.
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 CFNetwork - HTTP Response Denial of Service EDB-3200 · dos · Jan 25, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 26444 vdb-entry
- 3200 exploit
- APPLE-SA-2007-11-14 vendor-advisory
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
- http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-25-01-2007.html
- ADV-2007-3868 vdb-entry
- 32704 vdb-entry
- 27643 third-party-advisory
- 22249 vdb-entry
- TA07-319A third-party-advisory
- macos-cfnetwork-dos(31837) vdb-entry