Vulnerability CVE-2013-6799
Published: 2013-11-17   Modified: 2013-11-21

Description:
Apple Mac OS X 10.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or panic) by creating a hard link to a directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-0105.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Apple MacOSX 10.9 Hard Link Memory Corruption
Maksymilian Arci...
08.11.2013

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.7/10
6.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Apple -> Mac os x 

 References:
http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2013110059
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0051.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0033.html
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