CVE-2006-1457 Information

Description

Safari on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.6 when \Open `safe’ files after downloading\ is enabled will automatically expand archives which could allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an archive that contains a symlink.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20077 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016069 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/519473 http://www.osvdb.org/25598 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26427