CVE-2005-1043 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-1043?

CVE-2005-1043 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 12 Apr 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

exif.c in PHP before 4.3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an EXIF header with a large IFD nesting level, which causes significant stack recursion.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1043?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server, Conectiva Linux, Peachtree Peachtree Linux, Php Php, Sgi Propack and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2005-1043?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2005-1043 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-1043 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2012-1823 PHP-CGI Query String Parameter Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-30713 Apple macOS Unspecified Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2019-8526 Apple macOS Use-After-Free Exploited High 7.8

All Apple Mac Os X vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q2c2-w3x6-jhjj.