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

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)