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[ Suresec Advisories ] - Mac OS X 10.4 - launchd local root vulnerability
From: "[ Suresec Advisories ]" <advisories () suresec org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:44:28 +1000
Securesec Security Advisory - #00003 09/06/05 Apple Mac OS X 10.4 launchd race condition vulnerability Advisory: http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv3.pdf Description:A race condition vulnerability has been found in the temporary file creation done by the suid launchd program on Mac OSX 10.4.
The for advisory for this can be downloaded from the Suresec website. Risk:Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in stolen ownership of any file on the system. Using this it is trivial to get a root shell.
Credit: The vulnerability was discovered by Neil Archibald and Ilja Van Sprundel
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- [ Suresec Advisories ] - Mac OS X 10.4 - launchd local root vulnerability [ Suresec Advisories ] (Jun 09)
- Re:[ Suresec Advisories ] - Mac OS X 10.4 - launchd local root vulnerability Jonathan Weiss (Jun 10)