CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-0500

7.8 HIGH Published 2010-03-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-03-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Event Monitor in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 does not properly validate hostnames of SSH clients, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (arbitrary client blacklisting) via a crafted DNS PTR record, related to a "plist injection issue."

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x (<= 10.6.2) • apple mac os x 10.5 • apple mac os x 10.5.0 • 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 10.5.5 • apple mac os x 10.5.6 • apple mac os x 10.5.7 • apple mac os x 10.5.8 • apple mac os x 10.6.0 • apple mac os x 10.6.1 • apple mac os x server (<= 10.6.2) • apple mac os x server 10.5 • apple mac os x server 10.5.0 • 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 • apple mac os x server 10.5.5 • apple mac os x server 10.5.6 • apple mac os x server 10.5.7 • apple mac os x server 10.5.8 • apple mac os x server 10.6.0 • apple mac os x server 10.6.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References