CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1238
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-04-02
- 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-362
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.5.6)
• apple mac os x 10.0
• apple mac os x 10.0.0
• apple mac os x 10.0.1
• apple mac os x 10.0.2
• apple mac os x 10.0.3
• apple mac os x 10.0.4
• apple mac os x 10.1
• apple mac os x 10.1.0
• apple mac os x 10.1.1
• apple mac os x 10.1.2
• apple mac os x 10.1.3
• apple mac os x 10.1.4
• apple mac os x 10.1.5
• apple mac os x 10.2
• apple mac os x 10.2.0
• apple mac os x 10.2.1
• apple mac os x 10.2.2
• apple mac os x 10.2.3
• apple mac os x 10.2.4
• apple mac os x 10.2.5
• apple mac os x 10.2.6
• apple mac os x 10.2.7
• apple mac os x 10.2.8
• apple mac os x 10.3
• apple mac os x 10.3.0
• apple mac os x 10.3.1
• apple mac os x 10.3.2
• apple mac os x 10.3.3
• apple mac os x 10.3.4
• apple mac os x 10.3.5
• apple mac os x 10.3.6
• apple mac os x 10.3.7
• apple mac os x 10.3.8
• apple mac os x 10.3.9
• apple mac os x 10.4
• apple mac os x 10.4.0
• apple mac os x 10.4.1
• apple mac os x 10.4.2
• apple mac os x 10.4.3
• apple mac os x 10.4.4
• apple mac os x 10.4.5
• apple mac os x 10.4.6
• apple mac os x 10.4.7
• apple mac os x 10.4.8
• apple mac os x 10.4.9
• apple mac os x 10.4.10
• apple mac os x 10.4.11
• apple mac os x 10.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.0
• 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 10.5.5
• apple mac os x server (<= 10.5.6)
• apple mac os x server 10.0
• apple mac os x server 10.0.0
• apple mac os x server 10.0.1
• apple mac os x server 10.0.2
… and 50 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34424 secunia.com
- http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/xnu-vfssysctl-dos.c Exploit
- http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216401181 www.informationweek.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34202 Exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8265 www.exploit-db.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34424 secunia.com
- http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/xnu-vfssysctl-dos.c Exploit
- http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216401181 www.informationweek.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34202 Exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8265 www.exploit-db.com