CVE-2011-3450 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2011-3450?

CVE-2011-3450 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 2 Feb 2012. 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

CoreUI in Apple Mac OS X 10.7.x before 10.7.3 does not properly restrict the allocation of stack memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a long URL.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3450?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3450?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-3450 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-2011-3450 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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