CVE-2007-0229
highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.011 · 66 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Integer overflow in the ffs_mountfs function in Mac OS X 10.4.8 and FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted DMG image that causes "allocation of a negative size buffer" leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2006-5679. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.2
weaknesses
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exploits (1)
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- EDB-29441Apple Mac OSX 10.4.8 - DMG UFS FFS_MountFS Integer Overflowfunctional · exploit_db
affected products (4)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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references (28)
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- http://applefun.blogspot.com/2007/01/moab-10-01-2007-apple-dmg-ufs.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214enisa_euvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-10-01-2007.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23703enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24479enisa_euvd
- http://www.osvdb.org/32684enisa_euvd
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