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

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2024-08-07T12:26:54.492Z

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

Link: CVE-2007-0752

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

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

Link: CVE-2007-0752

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