Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6015 - Remote Denial of Service vulnerability in Apple mac OS X 10.4
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Buffer overflow in the JavaScript implementation in Safari on Apple Mac OS X 10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long argument to the exec method of a regular expression.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 1 |
Exploit-Db
| description | Apple Safari 2.0.4 JavaScript Regular Expression Match Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2006-6015. Dos exploit for osx platform |
| id | EDB-ID:29007 |
| last seen | 2016-02-03 |
| modified | 2006-11-14 |
| published | 2006-11-14 |
| reporter | jbh_cg |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/29007/ |
| title | Apple Safari 2.0.4 JavaScript Regular Expression Match Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability |
Statements
| contributor | Joshua Bressers |
| lastmodified | 2006-12-04 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | Red Hat does not consider unexploitable client application crashes to be security flaws. This bug causes a stack recursion crash which is not exploitable. |