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Credit:
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-058
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Vulnerable Systems:
* Apple Mac OS X
User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.
The specific flaw exists within the Apple ImageIO framework during the parsing of malformed JPEG2000 files. The function CGImageReadGetBytesAtOffset can utilize miscalculated values during a memmove operation that will result in an exploitable heap corruption allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code under the context of the current user.
Patch Availability:
Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
CVE Information:
CVE-2010-0505
Disclosure Timeline:
2010-02-02 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-04-05 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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