CVE-2006-4408 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-4408?

CVE-2006-4408 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 30 Nov 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Security Framework in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via certain public key values in an X.509 certificate that requires extra resources during signature verification. NOTE: this issue may be similar to CVE-2006-2940.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-4408?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2006-4408?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-4408 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-2006-4408 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-4408 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2hqc-9p94-56j8.