Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2008-4221
The strptime API in Libsystem in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted date string, related to improper memory allocation.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.034 (88.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.034 · newest: 0.034 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X — versions 10.4.11, 10.5, 10.5.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server — versions 10.4.11, 10.5, 10.5.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32881 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444 (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/33179 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839 (vdb-entry)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)