CVE-2008-0055 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0055
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Description: Foundation in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 creates world-writable directories while NSFileManager copies files recursively and only modifies the permissions afterward, which allows local users to modify copied files to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41299 ST 1019649 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29420 CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079A.html BID 28304 28343 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

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