Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-0646 - Use of Externally-Controlled Format String vulnerability in Apple Imovie, mac OS X and Safari
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Format string vulnerability in iMovie HD 6.0.3, and Safari in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.10, allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in a filename, which is not properly handled when calling the NSRunCriticalAlertPanel Apple AppKit function.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
---|---|---|
OS | 12 | |
Application | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Format String Injection An attacker includes formatting characters in a string input field on the target application. Most applications assume that users will provide static text and may respond unpredictably to the presence of formatting character. For example, in certain functions of the C programming languages such as printf, the formatting character %s will print the contents of a memory location expecting this location to identify a string and the formatting character %n prints the number of DWORD written in the memory. An attacker can use this to read or write to memory locations or files, or simply to manipulate the value of the resulting text in unexpected ways. Reading or writing memory may result in program crashes and writing memory could result in the execution of arbitrary code if the attacker can write to the program stack.
- String Format Overflow in syslog() This attack targets the format string vulnerabilities in the syslog() function. An attacker would typically inject malicious input in the format string parameter of the syslog function. This is a common problem, and many public vulnerabilities and associated exploits have been posted.
Exploit-Db
description | Apple Mac OS X 10.4.x iMovie HD .imovieproj Filename Format String. CVE-2007-0646. Dos exploit for osx platform |
id | EDB-ID:29551 |
last seen | 2016-02-03 |
modified | 2007-01-30 |
published | 2007-01-30 |
reporter | LMH |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/29551/ |
title | Apple Mac OS X 10.4.x iMovie HD .imovieproj Filename Format String |
Nessus
NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_SECUPD2007-004.NASL description The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 that does not have Security Update 2007-004 applied. This update fixes security flaws in the following applications : AFP Client AirPort CarbonCore diskdev_cmds fetchmail ftpd gnutar Help Viewer HID Family Installer Kerberos Libinfo Login Window network_cmds SMB System Configuration URLMount Video Conference WebDAV last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 25081 published 2007-04-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/25081 title Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-004) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # if ( ! defined_func("bn_random") ) exit(0); if (NASL_LEVEL < 3000) exit(0); include("compat.inc"); if(description) { script_id(25081); script_version ("1.22"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/14 1:59:35"); script_cve_id("CVE-2006-0300", "CVE-2006-5867", "CVE-2006-6143", "CVE-2006-6652", "CVE-2007-0022", "CVE-2007-0465", "CVE-2007-0646", "CVE-2007-0724", "CVE-2007-0725", "CVE-2007-0729", "CVE-2007-0732", "CVE-2007-0734", "CVE-2007-0735", "CVE-2007-0736", "CVE-2007-0737", "CVE-2007-0738", "CVE-2007-0739", "CVE-2007-0741", "CVE-2007-0742", "CVE-2007-0743", "CVE-2007-0744", "CVE-2007-0746", "CVE-2007-0747", "CVE-2007-0957", "CVE-2007-1216"); script_bugtraq_id(23569); script_name(english:"Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-004)"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes a security issue." ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 that does not have Security Update 2007-004 applied. This update fixes security flaws in the following applications : AFP Client AirPort CarbonCore diskdev_cmds fetchmail ftpd gnutar Help Viewer HID Family Installer Kerberos Libinfo Login Window network_cmds SMB System Configuration URLMount Video Conference WebDAV" ); # http://web.archive.org/web/20071213053008/http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?cf3b0926" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Install Security Update 2007-004 : # http://web.archive.org/web/20070423190224/http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2007004universal.html http://www.nessus.org/u?f44d0fd9" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_cwe_id(119, 134, 264); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2007/04/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2007/04/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value: "2007/04/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:apple:mac_os_x"); script_end_attributes(); script_summary(english:"Check for the presence of Security Update 2007-004"); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"MacOS X Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/MacOSX/packages"); exit(0); } # packages = get_kb_item("Host/MacOSX/packages"); if ( ! packages ) exit(0); uname = get_kb_item("Host/uname"); if ( egrep(pattern:"Darwin.* (7\.[0-9]\.|8\.[0-9]\.)", string:uname) ) { if (!egrep(pattern:"^SecUpd(Srvr)?(2007-00[4-9]|200[89]-|20[1-9][0-9]-)", string:packages)) security_hole(0); }
NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_10_4_11.NASL description The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 which is older than version 10.4.11 or a version of Mac OS X 10.3 which does not have Security Update 2007-008 applied. This update contains several security fixes for the following programs : - Flash Player Plugin - AppleRAID - BIND - bzip2 - CFFTP - CFNetwork - CoreFoundation - CoreText - Kerberos - Kernel - remote_cmds - Networking - NFS - NSURL - Safari - SecurityAgent - WebCore - WebKit last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 28212 published 2007-11-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/28212 title Mac OS X < 10.4.11 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-008)
References
- http://www.digitalmunition.com/MOAB-30-01-2007.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22326
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24966
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470