CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-0988
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Off-by-one error in the Libsystem strnstr API in libc on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted arguments that trigger a buffer over-read.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x 10.4.11
• apple mac os x server 10.4.11
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28304 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28374 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019661 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references www.vupen.com
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28304 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28374 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019661 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references www.vupen.com