CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-1457
2.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x 10.4.6
• apple mac os x server 10.4.6
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20077 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016069 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/519473 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/25598 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26427 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20077 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016069 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/519473 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/25598 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26427 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com