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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:
The dynamic linker (dyld) in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified dynamic linker options that affect the use of standard error (stderr) by privileged applications.
The bug was discovered 08/01/2006. The weakness was published 07/14/2006 by Neil Archibald (iDefense) with Mozilla Corporation (Website). The advisory is shared at us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-3499 since 07/10/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.
The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22125 (Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-004)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115383 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2006-004 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2006-08-01)).
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28140) and Tenable (22125). Similar entries are available at 1998, 25512, 26669 and 25873.
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Class: Information disclosureCWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 22125
Nessus Name: Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2006-004)
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Neil Archibald (iDefense)
Organization: Mozilla Corporation
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2006-3499 (🔍)
X-Force: 28140
Vulnerability Center: 12440 - Apple Mac OS X Privilege Escalation via Unspecified Dynamic Linker Options, High
SecurityFocus: 19289 - Apple Mac OS X Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21253 - Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 27737 - Apple Mac OS X dyld Error Output Local Information Disclosure
Vupen: ADV-2006-3101
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entry
Created: 03/12/2015 14:25Updated: 06/23/2019 21:40
Changes: 03/12/2015 14:25 (84), 06/23/2019 21:40 (4)
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