Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-3457 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Apple mac OS X and mac OS X Server
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
The OpenGL implementation in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.3 does not properly perform OpenGL Shading Language (aka GLSL) compilation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted program.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_SECUPD2012-001.NASL description The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.6 that does not have Security Update 2012-001 applied. This update contains multiple security-related fixes for the following components : - Apache - ATS - ColorSync - CoreAudio - CoreMedia - CoreText - curl - Data Security - dovecot - filecmds - libresolv - libsecurity - OpenGL - PHP - QuickTime - SquirrelMail - Subversion - Tomcat - X11 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 57798 published 2012-02-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57798 title Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2012-001) (BEAST) NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_10_7_3.NASL description The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.7.x that is prior to 10.7.3. The newer version contains multiple security-related fixes for the following components : - Address Book - Apache - ATS - CFNetwork - CoreMedia - CoreText - CoreUI - curl - Data Security - dovecot - filecmds - ImageIO - Internet Sharing - Libinfo - libresolv - libsecurity - OpenGL - PHP - QuickTime - Subversion - Time Machine - WebDAV Sharing - Webmail - X11 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 57797 published 2012-02-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57797 title Mac OS X 10.7.x < 10.7.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (BEAST)