Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2005-2748
The malloc function in the libSystem library in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting the MallocLogFile environment variable to the target file before running a setuid application.
EPSS: 0.003 (26.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.3.9, 10.4.2
- Apple Mac_os_x_server — versions 10.3.9, 10.4.2
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, government-resource, x_refsource_CIAC, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_AUSCERT, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)