CVE-2008-0988 (GCVE-0-2008-0988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-03-18 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:01
VLAI
Summary
Off-by-one error in the Libsystem strnstr API in libc on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted arguments that trigger a buffer over-read.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28304 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28374 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019661 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2008-03-18 00:00
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