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Apple Mac OS X Iodbcadmintool Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The 'iodbcadmintool' utility is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

This issue can allow local attackers to gain elevated privileges on an affected computer.

NOTE: This issue was previously discussed in BID 15647 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2005-009 Multiple Vulnerabilities), but has been assigned its own record to better document the vulnerability.