CVE-2006-1443

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer underflow in CoreFoundation in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving conversions from string to file system representation within (1) CFStringGetFileSystemRepresentation or (2) getFileSystemRepresentation:maxLength:withPath in NSFileManager, and possibly other similar API functions.

Affected products

macOS: 10.3.9, 10.4.6

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20077
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016080
http://www.osvdb.org/25587
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26408
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20077
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016080
http://www.osvdb.org/25587

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