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OS X update for ntp (CVE-2017-6455)

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OS X update for ntp (CVE-2017-6455)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/26/2017
Modified
03/18/2020

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94, when using PPSAPI, allows local users to gain privileges via a DLL in the PPSAPI_DLLS environment variable.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_13

References

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