PT-2005-3598 · Apple · Macos X

Ilja Van Sprundel + 1 · Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2018-10-19 · CVE-2005-2714

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mac OS X versions 10.3.x through 10.3.8 Mac OS X versions 10.4.x through 10.4.4

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .pwtmp.[PID] temporary file. This is related to the passwd functionality in Directory Services.

Recommendations For Mac OS X versions 10.3.x through 10.3.8, update to version 10.3.9 or later. For Mac OS X versions 10.4.x through 10.4.4, update to version 10.4.5 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2714

Affected Products

Macos X

References · 12

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/16910 · Exploit
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/16907 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=400 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19064 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2714 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/426535/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/23647 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25274 · Note