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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2005-1330

Medium
4.9/10

Summary

AppKit in Mac OS X 10.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Cocoa application crash) via a malformed TIFF image that causes the NXSeek to use an incorrect offset, leading to an unhandled exception.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published