40675 : Apple Mac OS X Kernel Port Inheritance Race Condition Local Privilege Escalation
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
5	262	over 4 years ago	over 2 years ago	7 times	100%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2007-09-07	2007-09-07	2007-09-10	2007-11-14	2007-11-14

Time to Patch	Time to Vendor Response
68 days	3 days

Description

Mac OS X contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to gain access to unauthorized privileges. The issue is triggered when a user obtains write access to a Mach port, and then executes a setuid binary, which allows user-controlled code to execute within the process as root. This flaw may lead to a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Race Condition
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Private, Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure

Solution

Upgrade to version 10.4.10 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Apple Computer, Inc.	Mac OS X	10.4.3
		10.4.4
		10.4.1
		10.4.6
		10.4.8
		10.4.2
		10.4.10
		10.4.5
		10.4.7
		10.4.9
		10.4

References

CVE ID: 2007-3749 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 27643
Related OSVDB ID: 40661 40662 40663 40664 40665 40666 40667 40668 40669 40670 40671 40672 40673 40674 40676 40677 40678 40679 40680 40681 40682 40683 40684 40685 40686 40687 40688 40689 40690 40691 40693
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-11/0215.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
Other Advisory URL: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=630

Tools & Filters

	4284

Credit

Anonymous - iDefense Labs VCP

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.2
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-11-15 | Disagree?

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