National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3745
Original release date:09/20/2012
Last revised:09/21/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Off-by-one error in Telephony in Apple iOS before 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and connectivity outage) via a crafted user-data header in an SMS message.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
Type: Advisory
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2012-09-19-1
Type: Advisory