Description
The PPP daemon (pppd) in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 checks ownership of the stdin file descriptor to determine if the invoker has sufficient privileges, which allows local users to load arbitrary plugins and gain root privileges by bypassing this check.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018124 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34503 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24144 ↗
- http://www.osvdb.org/35144 ↗
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=537 ↗