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CVE-2005-2516

Safari in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2, when rendering Rich Text Format (RTF) files, can directly access URLs without performing the normal security checks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Published: Aug 19, 2005
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2005-2516
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

No CWE or OWASP classifications available.

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
apple / safari	-	-
apple / mac_os_x	10.3.9	10.3.9.x
apple / mac_os_x	10.4.2	10.4.2.x

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/709220
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-229A.html

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