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Secunia Advisory SA23793

Apple Mac OS X "/sbin/service" Weakness
Secunia Advisory SA23793
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Release Date 2007-01-23
Last Update 2007-04-20
   
Popularity 15,831 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Apple Macintosh OS X
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-0022 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

KF has reported a weakness in Apple Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The weakness is caused due to /sbin/service invoking the "launchctl" utility without an absolute pathname, and is called by "writeconfig", which has the setuid bit set. This can be exploited to perform certain actions with root privileges by placing a malicious "launchctl" binary in the path.

Successful exploitation requires interaction of an administrative user.

The weakness is reported in Mac OS X 10.4.8. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Apply Security Update 2007-004.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
KF

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-21-01-2007.html

Deep Links
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