CVE-2005-2713 Information

Description

passwd in Directory Services in Mac OS X 10.3.x before 10.3.9 and 10.4.x before 10.4.5 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writable files as root by specifying an alternate file in the password database option.

Reference

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19064 http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=400 http://www.osvdb.org/23646 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426535/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16907 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16910 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25272