SB2011111502 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Apple MAC OS X
Published: November 15, 2011 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2011111502
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1516)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The kSBXProfileNoNetwork and kSBXProfileNoInternet sandbox profiles in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.x through 10.7.x do not propagate restrictions to all created processes, which allows remote attackers to access network resources via a crafted application, as demonstrated by use of osascript to send Apple events to the launchd daemon, a related issue to CVE-2008-7303.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.