Description
The Application Firewall in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 does not prevent a root process from accepting incoming connections, even when "Block incoming connections" has been set for its associated executable, which might allow remote attackers or local root processes to bypass intended access restrictions.
References
- 27695 third-party-advisory
- APPLE-SA-2007-11-15 vendor-advisory
- macosx-appfw-rootuid-bypass(38479) vdb-entry
- 26460 vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-3897 vdb-entry
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307004
- 1018958 vdb-entry