CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
97.6%
Apple Mac OS X mDNSresponder contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
mDNS uses IP multicast with DNS to provide the functionality of a DNS server for service discovery in networks that do not have a DNS server. mDNSResponder uses Multicast DNS Service Discovery for service discovery on the local network segment, and Unicast DNS Service Discovery for service discovery outside of the local network.
Bonjour provides zero-confirguation networking for Apple OS X. mDNSResponder is included as a part of Bonjour and runs as a system service. mDNSResponder is a included in OS X and Apple TV.
mDNSResponder contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability occurs in the UPnP IGD (Internet Gateway Device Standardized Device Control Protocol) code that is used to create dynamic port mappings in consumer routers.
Note that an attacker would need to be able to send multicast packets to a vulnerable system to exploit this vulnerability.
An attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, or create a denial of service condition.
Update
Apple has released Security Update 2007-005 to address this issue. Users are encouraged to apply these updates as soon as possible.
Restrict access
Until updates can be applied, creating a firewall rule to restrict access to 5353/udp
and 1900/udp
may mitigate this vulnerability. See the Apple Support document Creating an Advanced IP Firewall Rule for more information on how to create firewall rules. Note that blocking these ports may cause applications that rely on Bonjour to fail.
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Updated: May 25, 2007
Affected
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530> for more details.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23221876 Feedback>).
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Thanks to Apple for information that was used in this report. Apple thanks Michael Lynn of Juniper Networks for reporting this issue.
This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2007-2386 |
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Severity Metric: | 6.09 Date Public: |
developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/faq.html
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305631
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.4/en/c4ns11.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Multicast
www.apple.com/appletv/
www.iss.net/threats/264.html
www.upnp.org/standardizeddcps/igd.asp