CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-6165

9.3 HIGH Published 2007-11-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2007-11-29
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses: CWE-20, CWE-264

Description

Mail in Apple Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.1) allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AppleDouble attachment containing an apparently-safe file type and script in a resource fork, which does not warn the user that a separate program is going to be executed. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2006-0395.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x 10.5

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

CWE-264

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 docs.info.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html lists.apple.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/27785 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28136 Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019106 securitytracker.com
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/99257 Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/433819 US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26510 Exploit
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3958 Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 Vendor Advisory
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 docs.info.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html lists.apple.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/27785 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28136 Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019106 securitytracker.com
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/99257 Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/433819 US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26510 Exploit
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3958 Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 Vendor Advisory