CVE-2006-4396 Information

Description

The Apple Type Services (ATS) server in Mac OS X 10.4.8 and earlier does not securely create log files which allows local users to create and modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors possibly relating to a symlink attack.

Reference

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017301 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/323424 http://www.osvdb.org/30739 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21335 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750