CVE-2006-2277 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-2277?

CVE-2006-2277 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 9 May 2006. 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

Multiple Apple Mac OS X 10.4 applications might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted OpenEXR (.exr) image file, which triggers the crash when opening a folder using Finder, displaying the image in Safari, or using Preview to open the file.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2277?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2006-2277?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-2277 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2006-2277 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-2277 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-gf7r-vcch-gjv6.