CVE-2009-2840 Information

Description

Spotlight in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle temporary files which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files in the context of a different user’s privileges via unspecified vectors.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184