CVE-2009-2840

Spotlight in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle temporary files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files in the context of a different user's privileges via unspecified vectors.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2009-11-10

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Mac Os X (Apple)
• Mac Os X Server (Apple)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184