National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5860
Original release date:12/19/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in Spin Tracer in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified output files, involving an "insecure file operation."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-352A
Name: TA07-352A
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2007-12-17
External Source: XF
Name: macos-spin-tracer-code-execution(39112)
External Source: BID
Name: 26910
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-4238
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019106
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28136
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179