CVE-2005-2522 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2522?

CVE-2005-2522 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 19 Aug 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Safari in WebKit in Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.4.2 directly accesses URLs within PDF files without the normal security checks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via links in a PDF file.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2522?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Safari.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2522?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-2522 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2005-2522 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-2522 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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