National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3618

Overview

The File Sharing pane in the Sharing preference pane in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4 does not inform users that the complete contents of their own home directories are shared for their own use, which might allow attackers to leverage other vulnerabilities and access files for which sharing was unintended.

Impact

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#126787

Name: VU#126787

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/126787

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-260A

Name: TA08-260A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html

External Source: BID

Name: 31189

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2008-09-15

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html

External Source: XF

Name: macos-filesharing-weak-security(45175)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45175

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2584

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020883

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1020883