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FKIE_CVE-2006-1471

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-06-27 22:13 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:22

Severity

Summary

Format string vulnerability in the CF_syslog function launchd in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 up to 10.4.6 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers that are not properly handled in a syslog call in the logging facility, as demonstrated by using a crafted plist file.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Jun/msg00000.html
cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/20877	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://securitytracker.com/id?1016397
cve@mitre.org	http://www.osvdb.org/26933
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438699/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18686
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18724
cve@mitre.org	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2566	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27479
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Jun/msg00000.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/20877	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://securitytracker.com/id?1016397
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.osvdb.org/26933
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438699/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18686
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18724
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2566	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27479

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
apple	mac_os_x	10.4
apple	mac_os_x	10.4.1
apple	mac_os_x	10.4.2
apple	mac_os_x	10.4.3
apple	mac_os_x	10.4.4
apple	mac_os_x	10.4.5
apple	mac_os_x	10.4.6
apple	mac_os_x_server	10.4
apple	mac_os_x_server	10.4.1
apple	mac_os_x_server	10.4.2
apple	mac_os_x_server	10.4.3
apple	mac_os_x_server	10.4.4
apple	mac_os_x_server	10.4.5
apple	mac_os_x_server	10.4.6

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CVE-2006-1471 (GCVE-0-2006-1471)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-06-27 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 17:12

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

9 references

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http://securitytracker.com/id?1016397	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18686	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438699/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.osvdb.org/26933	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/20877	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2566	vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18724	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Date Public

2006-06-27 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.