CVE-2006-4392

CVE-2006-4392 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The Mach kernel, as used in operating systems including (1) Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.7 and (2) OpenStep before 4.2, allows local users to gain privileges via a parent process that forces an exception in a setuid child and uses Mach exception ports to modify the child's thread context and task address space in a way that causes the child to call a parent-controlled function.

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