CVE-2005-3712

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in rsync in Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.5 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via long extended attributes.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4, 10.4.1, 10.4.2, 10.4.3, 10.4.4, 10.4.5
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.4, 10.4.1, 10.4.2, 10.4.3, 10.4.4, 10.4.5

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19064
http://www.osvdb.org/23648
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16907
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25029
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19064
http://www.osvdb.org/23648

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