CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4237
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Managed Client in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.6 sometimes misidentifies a system when installing per-host configuration settings, which allows context-dependent attackers to have an unspecified impact by leveraging unintended settings, as demonstrated by the screen saver lock setting.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.5.5)
• apple mac os x 10.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.1
• apple mac os x 10.5.2
• apple mac os x 10.5.3
• apple mac os x 10.5.4
• apple mac os x server (<= 10.5.5)
• apple mac os x server 10.5
• apple mac os x server 10.5.1
• apple mac os x server 10.5.2
• apple mac os x server 10.5.3
• apple mac os x server 10.5.4
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33179 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32880 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021407 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444 www.vupen.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33179 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32880 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021407 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444 www.vupen.com