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Mac OS X cd9660.util Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10440
Release Date: 2003-12-16
Last Update: 2004-03-16
Popularity: 20,455 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Apple Macintosh OS X

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Max has reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the utility "cd9660.util" when handling input to the probe for mounting ("-p") parameter. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by supplying an overly long, specially crafted string as argument.

Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary code with "root" privileges.

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