Overview
There is a vulnerability in the Mac OS X CoreFoundation framework that could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Description
The Core Foundation framework (CoreFoundation.framework) is designed to allow code and data sharing between frameworks, libraries, and applications in different environments and layers. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way CoreFoundation processes a certain environment variable. By specifying a specially crafted value for this variable, an authenticated, local attacker could execute arbitrary code with privileges of the vulnerable process. |
Impact
An authenticated, local attacker could execute arbitrary code with privileges of the vulnerable process. |
Solution
Apple has released a patch to address this vulnerability. For further details, please see the Apple Security Advisory (Security Update 2004-09-07). |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
This vulnerability was reported by Apple.
This document was written by Damon Morda based on information provided by Apple.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2004-0822 |
| Severity Metric: | 9.62 |
| Date Public: | 2004-09-08 |
| Date First Published: | 2004-09-09 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2004-09-29 19:48 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 18 |