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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4703
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-4703

Description:
The Application Firewall in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 does not prevent a root process from accepting incoming connections, even when "Block incoming connections" has been set for its associated executable, which might allow remote attackers or local root processes to bypass intended access restrictions.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38479

ST
  1018958

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA27695

CONFIRM
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307004

BID
  26460

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00004.html


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