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Mac OS X File Sharing Insecurity
Secunia Advisory: SA8978
Release Date: 2003-06-10
Popularity: 12,714 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Manipulation of data
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Apple Macintosh OS X

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CVE reference:CVE-2003-0379


Description:
Apple has issued an update to fix a potential security issue with sharing of UFS and re-sharing of NFS volumes allowing malicious users to overwrite arbitrary files.

No further details have been released.

Solution:
The update is available via "Software Update".


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