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Apple Mac OS X Multiple Denial of Service and Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Title : Apple Mac OS X Multiple Denial of Service and Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-0074
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0022 - CVE-2007-0117 - CVE-2007-0467
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-01-08

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or obtain elevated privileges.

The first issue is due to an error in the DiskManagement framework when processing BOM files, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges via the "diskutil" tool [...]

Affected Products

Apple Mac OS X version 10.x

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by LMH and Kevin Finisterre

ChangeLog

2007-01-08 : Initial release
2007-03-13 : Updated Solution

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