Re: MacOS X 10.5/10.6 libc/strtod(3) buffer overflow

[Joshua Levitsky <jlevitsk () joshie com>]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Maksymilian Arciemowicz <
cxib () securityreason com> wrote:

> [ MacOS X 10.5/10.6 libc/strtod(3) buffer overflow ]
>
> Author: Maksymilian Arciemowicz and sp3x
> http://SecurityReason.com
>
> CVE: CVE-2009-0689
> CWE: CWE-119
> Risk: High
> Remote: Yes

I tested doing "printf %1.262159f 1.1" in a shell login on 10.4.11 and it
took out my session. I imagine this means 10.4.11 is vulnerable as well no?
Tiger is still very popular in enterprise environments that are slow to
upgrade.

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