Description
The Repair Permissions tool in Disk Utility in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 adds the setuid bit to the emacs executable file, which allows local users to gain privileges by executing commands within emacs.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2268 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30492 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31326 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44132 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020605 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30483 ↗