---------------------------------------------------------------------- To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the advisories to German. The improvements will help our customers to get a better understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated, our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios. This includes: * Reason for rating * Extended description * Extended solution * Exploit code or links to exploit code * Deep links Read the full description: http://corporate.secunia.com/products/48/?r=l Contact Secunia Sales for more information: http://corporate.secunia.com/how_to_buy/15/?r=l ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Apple Mac OS X UDIF Memory Corruption Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA23012 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/23012/ CRITICAL: Highly critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation, DoS, System access WHERE: >From remote OPERATING SYSTEM: Apple Macintosh OS X http://secunia.com/product/96/ DESCRIPTION: LMH has reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in com.apple.AppleDiskImageController when handling corrupted DMG image structures. This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption and may allow execution of arbitrary code in kernel-mode. The vulnerability is reported in a fully patched Mac OS X (2006-11-20). Other versions may also be affected. SOLUTION: Deactivate the option "opening safe files after downloading" in the preferences and grant only trusted users access to affected systems. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: LMH ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-20-11-2006.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------