The PPP daemon (pppd) in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 checks ownership of the stdin file descriptor to determine if the invoker has sufficient privileges, which allows local users to load arbitrary plugins and gain root privileges by bypassing this check.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T12:26:54.492Z
Reserved: 2007-02-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-0752

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Status : Modified
Published: 2007-05-24T22:30:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:26:39.783
Link: CVE-2007-0752

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