Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2006-4392
The Mach kernel, as used in operating systems including (1) Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.7 and (2) OpenStep before 4.2, allows local users to gain privileges via a parent process that forces an exception in a setuid child and uses Mach exception ports to modify the child's thread context and task address space in a way that causes the child to call a parent-controlled function.
EPSS: 0.015 (72.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.4, 10.4.1, 10.4.2
- Next Openstep — versions 4.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)