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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (25.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 25.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
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
References
- www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml (US Government Resource, government-resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.suresec.org/advisories/adv7.pdf
- www.auscert.org.au/5509 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/16920/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)