Description
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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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2016-9500 | 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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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: obdev
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:41.325Z
Reserved: 2016-10-14T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2016-8661
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Status : Modified
Published: 2016-11-15T15:59:00.180
Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220
Link: CVE-2016-8661
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Weaknesses
EUVD