CVE-2007-0752

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

The PPP daemon (pppd) in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 checks ownership of the stdin file descriptor to determine if the invoker has sufficient privileges, which allows local users to load arbitrary plugins and gain root privileges by bypassing this check.

The PPP daemon (pppd) in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 checks ownership of the stdin file descriptor to determine if the invoker has sufficient privileges, which allows local users to load arbitrary plugins and gain root privileges by bypassing this check.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 17 years ago

2007-05-24 22:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:30:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8

10.4.8

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.8

10.4.8

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