Published: 15/11/2010 Updated: 10/12/2010

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 755

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Stack-based buffer overflow in the password-validation functionality in Directory Services in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x prior to 10.6.5 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

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apple mac os x 10.5.8
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apple mac os x 10.6.1
apple mac os x 10.6.0
apple mac os x 10.6.4
apple mac os x 10.6.3
apple mac os x server 10.6.1
apple mac os x server 10.5.8
apple mac os x server 10.6.3
apple mac os x server 10.6.0
apple mac os x server 10.6.2
apple mac os x server 10.6.4

Apple Directory Services Memory Corruption CVE-2010-1840 INTRODUCTION chfn, chpass and chsh dos not properly parse authname switch ("-u"), which causes the applications to crash when parsing a long string Those binaries are setuid root by default This problem was confirmed in the following versions of Apple binaries and MacOS, other versions ...

CWE-119 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024723 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15491/

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