PT-2003-1933 · Apple · Macos X

Published 2003-10-30 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2003-0878

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mac OS X versions prior to 10.3

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Recommendations For Mac OS X versions prior to 10.3, update to version 10.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-0878

Affected Products

Macos X

References · 3

• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0878 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html · Note