Twenty-five vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to execute arbitrary commands, cause a denial of service, disclose sensitive information, or bypass security restrictions.
The first issue is caused by an error in the AFP Client that executes commands without properly cleaning the environment, which could be exploited by local attackers to create malicious files or execute arbitrary commands with system privileges [...]
References
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1470
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305445
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Kevin Finisterre (DigitalMunition), Landon Fuller (Three Rings Design), Mu Security Research Team, Daniel Ball (Pittsburgh Technical Institute), Geoff Franks (Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute), Jamie Cox (Sophos) and Bradley Schwoerer (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
ChangeLog
2007-04-19 : Initial release
2007-05-01 : Updated Solution
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