A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a memory corruption error within the "shared_region_make_private_np()" call when handling malformed arguments, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service or obtain elevated privileges.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by LMH
ChangeLog
2006-11-29 : Initial release
2007-03-13 : Updated Solution
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