CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3609
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The kernel in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4 does not properly flush cached credentials during recycling (aka purging) of a vnode, which might allow local users to bypass the intended read or write permissions of a file.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x 10.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.1
• apple mac os x 10.5.2
• apple mac os x 10.5.3
• apple mac os x 10.5.4
• apple mac os x server 10.5
• apple mac os x server 10.5.1
• apple mac os x server 10.5.2
• apple mac os x server 10.5.3
• apple mac os x server 10.5.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31882 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020877 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45169 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31882 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31189 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020877 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45169 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com