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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-05-24T22:00:00

Updated: 2017-07-28T12:57:01

Reserved: 2007-02-05T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2007-0752

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-05-24T22:30:00.000

Modified: 2017-07-29T01:30:23.203


Link: CVE-2007-0752

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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