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  Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discovered
Time: 08:41 EST/13:41 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein

Yesterday, an anonymous reader released details on a local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS x 10.4 and 10.5, which works by running a local AppleScript that would set the user ID to root through ARDAgent’s default setuid root state.

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