CVE-2007-4703 - CVE Reference - Advisories

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4703

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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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