CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-0990
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
notifyd in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 does not verify that Mach port death notifications have originated from the kernel, which allows local users to cause a denial of service via spoofed death notifications that prevent other applications from receiving notifications.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x 10.4.11
• apple mac os x server 10.4.11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
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/28345 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019663 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
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41289 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.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/28345 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019663 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
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41289 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com