National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0089
Original release date:03/03/2004
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in TruBlueEnvironment in Mac OS X 10.3.x and 10.2.x allows local users to gain privileges via a long environment variable.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#902374
Name: VU#902374
External Source: BID
Name: 9509
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: macosx-trublue-environmentvariable-bo(14968)
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 6821
External Source: ATSTAKE
Name: A012704-1
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2004-01-26
