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Apple Mac OS X Disk Utility Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Apple Mac OS X is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability that affects Disk Utility.

An unprivileged local user may exploit this issue to run commands with system-level privileges.

The following versions are affected:

Mac OS X v10.4.11 and prior
Mac OS X Server v10.4.11 and prior

This issue does not affect systems running Mac OS X v10.5 and later.

NOTE: This issue was previously covered in BID 30483 (Apple Mac OS X 2008-005 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities) but has been given its own record to better document the vulnerability.