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Apple CrashDump privilege escalation

Vulnerability Note VU#363112

Original Release Date: 2007-03-13 | Last Revised: 2007-03-13

Overview

CrashReporter contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that may allow authenticated users to run commands as root.

Description

CrashReporter is a debugging facility in Apple OS X that logs information program crashes.

CrashReporter contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. This vulnerability occurs because a user which has admin privileges can cause CrashReporter's log files to be written to arbitrary files as root. This vulnerability may result in the execution of commands with root privileges.

Note that a attacker would need to convince an authenticated user who is a member of the admin group to execute commands to exploit this vulnerability remotely.

Impact

An authenticated attacker may be able to issue arbitrary commands with root privileges or overwrite arbitrary files.

Solution

Upgrade
Apple has issued an upgrade to address this issue. See Apple Security Update 2007-003 for more details.

Vendor Information

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Apple Computer, Inc. Affected

Updated:  March 13, 2007

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 for more details.

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Acknowledgements

This issue was made public on the Month of Apple Bugs website.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

CVE IDs: CVE-2007-0467
Severity Metric: 0.35
Date Public: 2007-01-28
Date First Published: 2007-03-13
Date Last Updated: 2007-03-13 21:50 UTC
Document Revision: 18

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