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>> Apple Mac OS X "TIFFFetchAnyArray" Image Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Apple Mac OS X "TIFFFetchAnyArray" Image Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2606
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3356
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-06-29
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A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error in the "TIFFFetchAnyArray()" function that fails to properly handle TIFF images containing malformed tags, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable applications linked against "ImageIO" (e.g. Safari) by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted Web site or open a malicious image.
Affected Products
Apple Mac OS X version 10.4.7 and prior
Apple Mac OS X Server version 10.4.7 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2606
http://www.security-protocols.com/sp-x31-advisory.php
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Tom Ferris
ChangeLog
2006-06-29 : Initial release
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