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CVE-2010-0500

Event Monitor in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 does not properly validate hostnames of SSH clients, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (arbitrary client blacklisting) via a crafted DNS PTR record, related to a "plist injection issue."

Published

2010-03-30T18:30:00.577

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-20
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System apple mac_os_x ≤ 10.6.2 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5.0 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5.1 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5.2 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5.3 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5.4 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5.5 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5.7 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.5.8 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.6.0 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.6.1 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server ≤ 10.6.2 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5.0 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5.1 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5.2 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5.3 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5.4 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5.5 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5.7 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.5.8 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.6.0 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server 10.6.1 Yes
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