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>> Apple Mac OS X UDTO HFS+ Image Structures Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Apple Mac OS X UDTO HFS+ Image Structures Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4653
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-22
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A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to errors when handling corrupted UDTO HFS+ image structures, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a vulnerable system to crash by convincing a user to visit a malicious Web page using Safari.
Affected Products
Apple Mac OS X version 10.4.8 and prior
Solution
Disable the "open safe files after downloading" option in the preferences.
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4653
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-21-11-2006.html
Credits
Vulnerability reported by LMH
ChangeLog
2006-11-22 : Initial release
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