CVE-2008-2324

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

The Repair Permissions tool in Disk Utility in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 adds the setuid bit to the emacs executable file, which allows local users to gain privileges by executing commands within emacs.

The Repair Permissions tool in Disk Utility in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 adds the setuid bit to the emacs executable file, which allows local users to gain privileges by executing commands within emacs.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 16 years ago

2008-08-04 01:41:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:30:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11

10.4.11

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.11

10.4.11

References

APPLE-SA-2008-07-31

31326

Vendor Advisory

30483

30492

1020605

ADV-2008-2268

macosx-diskutility-privilege-escalation(44132)

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