CVE-2008-0055 Information

Description

Foundation in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 creates world-writable directories while NSFileManager copies files recursively and only modifies the permissions afterward which allows local users to modify copied files to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges.

Reference

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28304 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28343 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019649 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41299