CVE-2005-2748

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

The malloc function in the libSystem library in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting the MallocLogFile environment variable to the target file before running a setuid application.

The malloc function in the libSystem library in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting the MallocLogFile environment variable to the target file before running a setuid application.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 19 years ago

2005-10-25 22:06:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:52:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9

10.3.9

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.2

10.4.2

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.9

10.3.9

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.2

10.4.2

References

APPLE-SA-2005-09-22

Vendor Advisory

16920

Patch, Vendor Advisory

ESB-2005.0732

Vendor Advisory

P-312

US Government Resource

http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv7.pdf

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