CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4220

10.0 HIGH Published 2008-12-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-12-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the inet_net_pton API in Libsystem in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this may be related to the WLB-2008080064 advisory published by SecurityReason on 20080822; however, as of 20081216, there are insufficient details to be sure.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x (<= 10.5.5) • apple mac os x 10.4.11 • 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 (<= 10.5.5) • apple mac os x server 10.4.11 • 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