Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability in Mac OS X Malloc Function

CVE-2005-2748 · LOW Severity

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

The malloc function in the libSystem library in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting the MallocLogFile environment variable to the target file before running a setuid application.

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