TITLE:
Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station Network Interface Denial of
Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18319

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18319/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Apple Airport Express
http://secunia.com/product/4503/
Apple Airport Extreme
http://secunia.com/product/4504/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Apple AirPort Extreme, which can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the base
station when handling certain network packets. This can be exploited
to cause the base station's network interface to stop responding via
specially crafted network packets.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated firmware.

AirPort Extreme Firmware Update 5.7 (Mac OS X):
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportextremefirmwareupdate57formacosx.html

AirPort Extreme Firmware Update 5.7 (Windows):
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportextremefirmwareupdate57forwindows.html

AirPort Express Firmware Update 6.3 (Mac OS X):
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportexpressfirmwareupdate63formacosx.html

AirPort Express Firmware Update 6.3 (Windows):
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportexpressfirmwareupdate63forwindows.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Michael Zanetta, NETwork Security Consortium.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303072

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