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>> Apple Mac OS X Mach-O Universal Binary Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Title : Apple Mac OS X Mach-O Universal Binary Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4714
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6126 - CVE-2006-6129
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-27

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Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.

The first flaw is due to an integer overflow error in the "fatfile_getarch2()" function when processing a malformed Mach-O Universal binary, which could be exploited by malicious users to obtain elevated privileges via a specially crafted Mach-O Universal file [...]

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4714
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-26-11-2006.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-23-11-2006.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

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Vulnerabilities reported by LMH

ChangeLog

2006-11-27 : Initial release
2007-03-13 : Updated Solution

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