CVE-2008-2324 Information

Description

The Repair Permissions tool in Disk Utility in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 adds the setuid bit to the emacs executable file which allows local users to gain privileges by executing commands within emacs.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31326 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30483 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30492 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020605 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2268 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44132