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Apple Remote Desktop Insecure Permissions Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Apple Remote Desktop Insecure Permissions Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-4567
CVE ID : CVE-2006-4413
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-17

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Remote Desktop, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/4567
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304824

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Andrew Mortensen (University of Michigan)

ChangeLog

2006-11-17 : Initial release

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