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ghsa-pj5v-hc9m-mp8j

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:13

Modified

2022-05-13 01:13

Severity ?

8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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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CVE-2016-8661 (GCVE-0-2016-8661)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-11-15 15:00

Modified

2024-08-06 02:27

Severity ?

CWE

escalation of privileges

Summary

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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URL

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	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94352	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://speakerdeck.com/patrickwardle/defcon-2016-i-got-99-problems-but-little-snitch-aint-one	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1	Version: Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1

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