Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac

CVE-2018-18329

Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac that allows local attackers to exploit untrusted pointer dereference. This security flaw arises from inadequate validation of user-supplied buffers at a specific offset, enabling an attacker who has executed low-privileged code on the system to potentially escalate their privileges on affected installations.

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