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CVE-2009-1238

CVE-2009-1238 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.199999809265137 HIGH

Race condition in the HFS vfs sysctl interface in XNU 1228.8.20 and earlier on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory corruption) by simultaneously executing the same HFS_SET_PKG_EXTENSIONS code path in multiple threads, which is problematic because of lack of mutex locking for an unspecified global variable.

EPSS 0.62% · 46.4th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 2.0
7.199999809265137
EPSS Score
0.62%
46.4th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a
applemac_os_x10.3.4, 10.0.1, 10.0.4
applemac_os_x_server10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4

Timeline

  • Mar 23, 2009 PoC Published
  • Apr 2, 2009 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
  • May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Oct 27, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 9, 2023 EPSS Score
  • Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
  • Apr 3, 2023 EPSS Score
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