Description
Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1 suffer from a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be locally exploited which could lead to an escalation of privileges (EoP) and unauthorised ring0 access to the operating system. The buffer overflow is related to insufficient checking of parameters to the "OSMalloc" and "copyin" kernel API calls.
Published: 2016-11-15
Score: 8.4 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-9500 Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1 suffer from a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be locally exploited which could lead to an escalation of privileges (EoP) and unauthorised ring0 access to the operating system. The buffer overflow is related to insufficient checking of parameters to the "OSMalloc" and "copyin" kernel API calls.
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Obdev Little Snitch
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: obdev

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:41.325Z

Reserved: 2016-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-8661

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-11-15T15:59:00.180

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-8661

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