Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the Quarantine feature in CoreTypes in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.6 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an executable file with the content type indicating no application association for the file, which does not trigger a "potentially unsafe" warning message.

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5 that is older than version 10.5.6.  Mac OS X 10.5.6 contains security fixes for the following products : 

  - ATS
  - BOM
  - CoreGraphics
  - CoreServices
  - CoreTypes
  - Flash Player Plug-in
  - Kernel
  - Libsystem
  - Managed Client
  - network_cmds
  - Podcast Producer
  - UDF

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5.x that is prior to 10.5.6. 

Mac OS X 10.5.6 contains security fixes for the following products :

  - ATS
  - BOM
  - CoreGraphics
  - CoreServices
  - CoreTypes
  - Flash Player Plug-in
  - Kernel
  - Libsystem
  - Managed Client
  - network_cmds
  - Podcast Producer
  - UDF

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
4790	Mac OS X < 10.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Generic	critical
4789	Mac OS X < 10.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Generic	critical
35111	Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

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CVE-2008-4234

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Tenable Plugins

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