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CVE-2006-3497 (GCVE-0-2006-3497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-08-02 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:30
VLAI
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in the "compression state handling" in Bom for Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.7 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Zip archive.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/514740 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
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http://secunia.com/advisories/21253 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/27735 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
Date Public
2006-08-01 00:00
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