Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2009-1235

XNU 1228.9.59 and earlier on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and earlier does not properly restrict interaction between user space and the HFS IOCTL handler, which allows local users to overwrite kernel memory and gain privileges by attaching an HFS+ disk image and performing certain steps involving HFS_GET_BOOT_INFO fcntl calls.

EPSS: 0.010 (58.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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