Apple Mac OS X CoreFoundation Time Zone Data Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Apple Mac OS X CoreFoundation Time Zone Data Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Apple Mac OS X is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability that occurs in CoreFoundation.

An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges. Successfully exploiting this issue will result in the complete compromise of affected computers. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition.

NOTE: This vulnerability was previously covered in BID 28304 (Apple Mac OS X 2008-002 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities), but has been given its own record to better document the issue.