CVE-2006-6062

Mac Os X vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

5.4%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Unspecified vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed UDTO HFS+ disk image, such as with "bad sectors," which triggers memory corruption.

Affected vendor

Apple

Affected product

Mac Os X

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2006-11-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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