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CVE-2009-2829

Event Monitor in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle crafted authentication data sent to an SSH daemon, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors involving processing of XML log documents by other services, related to a "log injection" issue.

Published

2009-11-10T19:30:01.377

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-255

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	apple	mac_os_x_server	10.5.8	Yes

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956 Patch ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 ([email protected])
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)