CVE-2006-4408

The Security Framework in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via certain public key values in an X.509 certificate that requires extra resources during signature verification. NOTE: this issue may be similar to CVE-2006-2940.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2006-11-30

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Mac Os X (Apple)

References

• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017298
• http://www.osvdb.org/30730
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21335
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750