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TITLE:
Apple Mac OS X Mail MIME Attachments Denial of Service Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46707

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-08

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DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been discovered in Apple Mac OS X, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an error in the Mail application when
processing certain emails, which can be exploited to crash the
application via emails containing a large amount of MIME
attachments.

The weakness is confirmed in version 5.1 (1251/1251.1) on Mac OS X
10.7.2.

SOLUTION:
Use another email client to delete malicious emails.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
shebang42

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-10/0215.html

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