CVE-2009-1236 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the AppleTalk networking stack in XNU 1228.3.13 and earlier on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a ZIP NOTIFY (aka ZIPOP_NOTIFY) packet that overwrites a certain ifPort structure member.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/34424 http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/xnu-appletalk-zip.c http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216401181 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34201 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8262