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Apple Mac OS X Internet Connection Privilege Escalation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12157
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Release Date:
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2004-07-27
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Last Update:
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2004-10-14
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Popularity:
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15,682 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Apple Macintosh OS X
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0824
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Description:
B-r00t has reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The problem is that "Internet Connect.app" creates the file "/tmp/ppp.log" in an insecure manner, which can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with escalated privileges.
The vulnerability has been reported in Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, and Mac OS X 10.3.5.
Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in Security Update 2004-09-07.
Provided and/or discovered by:
B-r00t
Changelog:
2004-10-14: Updated "Solution" section.
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