CVE-2010-0500

high

Description

Event Monitor in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 does not properly validate hostnames of SSH clients, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (arbitrary client blacklisting) via a crafted DNS PTR record, related to a "plist injection issue."

References

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-03-30

Updated: 2010-03-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H