Vulnerability Note VU#363112

Apple CrashDump privilege escalation

Overview

CrashReporter contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that may allow authenticated users to run commands as root.

I. Description

CrashReporter is a debugging facility in Apple OS X that logs information program crashes.

CrashReporter contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. This vulnerability occurs because a user which has admin privileges can cause CrashReporter's log files to be written to arbitrary files as root. This vulnerability may result in the execution of commands with root privileges.

Note that a attacker would need to convince an authenticated user who is a member of the admin group to execute commands to exploit this vulnerability remotely.

II. Impact

An authenticated attacker may be able to issue arbitrary commands with root privileges or overwrite arbitrary files.

III. Solution

Upgrade

Apple has issued an upgrade to address this issue. See Apple Security Update 2007-003 for more details.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Apple Computer, Inc.	Vulnerable	13-Mar-2007

References

http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-28-01-2007.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2123.html

Credit

This issue was made public on the Month of Apple Bugs website.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public:	2007-01-28
Date First Published:	2007-03-13
Date Last Updated:	2007-03-13
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):	CVE-2007-0467
NVD-ID(s):	CVE-2007-0467
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	0.35
Document Revision:	15

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