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Securesec Security Advisory - #00003
09/06/05
Apple Mac OS X 10.4 launchd race condition vulnerability
Advisory: http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv3.pdf
Description:
A race condition vulnerability has been found in the temporary file
creation done by the suid launchd program on Mac OSX 10.4.
The for advisory for this can be downloaded from the Suresec website.
Risk:
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in stolen
ownership of any file on the system. Using this it is trivial to get
a root shell.
Credit:
The vulnerability was discovered by Neil Archibald and Ilja Van Sprundel
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