National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0023

Overview

The CFUserNotificationSendRequest function in UserNotificationCenter.app in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, when used in combination with diskutil, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious InputManager in Library/InputManagers in a user's home directory, which is executed when Cocoa applications attempt to notify the user.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-047A

Name: TA07-047A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-047A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#315856

Name: VU#315856

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/315856

External Source: MISC

Name: http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-22-01-2007.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-22-01-2007.html

External Source: XF

Name: macos-inputmanager-privilege-escalation(31676)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31676

External Source: BID

Name: 22188

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22188

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 32695

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/32695

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-0074

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/0074

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017542

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017542

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24198

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24198

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23846

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23846

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-02-15

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Feb/msg00000.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305102