CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-3609

Published: Sep 16, 2008 | Modified: Aug 08, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The kernel in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4 does not properly flush cached credentials during recycling (aka purging) of a vnode, which might allow local users to bypass the intended read or write permissions of a file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mac_os_x Apple 10.5 (including) 10.5 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.5.1 (including) 10.5.1 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.5.2 (including) 10.5.2 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.5.3 (including) 10.5.3 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.5.4 (including) 10.5.4 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.5 (including) 10.5 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.5.1 (including) 10.5.1 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.5.2 (including) 10.5.2 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.5.3 (including) 10.5.3 (including)
Mac_os_x_server Apple 10.5.4 (including) 10.5.4 (including)

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