| CVE ID | CVE-2010-1843 |
| CVSS SCORE | 7.8, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| AFFECTED VENDORS |
Apple |
| AFFECTED PRODUCTS |
OS X |
| TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION | Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['10608']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com |
| VULNERABILITY DETAILS |
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to denial of service the IPv6 stack of an installation of Apple Mac OSX. No authentication or user interaction is required in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within OSX's IPv6 stack. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was discovered in the xnu kernel implementation when a specially formatted packet is sent to it. Exploiting this vulnerability will result in a remote denial of service against the target os. |
| ADDITIONAL DETAILS |
Mac OS X 10.6.5: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 iOS 4.2: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456 |
| DISCLOSURE TIMELINE |
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| CREDIT | Anonymous |
