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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0055

NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-0055

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:

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
  28343
  28304

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html


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