CVE-2005-2714 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2714
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Description: passwd in Directory Services in Mac OS X 10.3.x before 10.3.9 and 10.4.x before 10.4.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .pwtmp.[PID] temporary file.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25274 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA19064 OSVDB 23647 IDEFENSE http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=400 CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/426535/100/0/threaded BID 16907 16910 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html

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