CVE-2005-2748

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-10-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The malloc function in the libSystem library in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting the MallocLogFile environment variable to the target file before running a setuid application.

Affected products

macOS: 10.3.9, 10.4.2
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.3.9, 10.4.2

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16920/
http://www.auscert.org.au/5509
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml
http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv7.pdf
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16920/
http://www.auscert.org.au/5509
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml
http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv7.pdf

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