Description
The PPP daemon (pppd) in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 checks ownership of the stdin file descriptor to determine if the invoker has sufficient privileges, which allows local users to load arbitrary plugins and gain root privileges by bypassing this check.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Apple Mac OSX 10.4.8 - pppd Plugin Loading Privilege Escalation EDB-3985 · local · May 25, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
- 1018124 vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-1939 vdb-entry
- APPLE-SA-2007-05-24 vendor-advisory
- 25402 third-party-advisory
- macos-pppd-privilege-escalation(34503) vdb-entry
- 24144 vdb-entry
- 35144 vdb-entry
- 20070524 Apple Computer Mac OS X pppd Plugin Loading Privilege Escalation Vulnerability third-party-advisory