CVE-2005-2748 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2748
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Description: The malloc function in the libSystem library in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting the MallocLogFile environment variable to the target file before running a setuid application.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA16920 MISC http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv7.pdf CIAC http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml AUSCERT http://www.auscert.org.au/5509 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html

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