Buffer overflow in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2009-1236

Heap-based buffer overflow in the AppleTalk networking stack in XNU 1228.3.13 and earlier on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a ZIP NOTIFY (aka ZIPOP_NOTIFY) packet that overwrites a certain ifPort structure member.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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: 0.084 (94.8th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2009-1236: held from 0.084 to 0.084.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.084 · newest: 0.084 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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