Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2010-0105

The hfs implementation in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x before 10.6.5 supports hard links to directories and does not prevent certain deeply nested directory structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (filesystem corruption) via a crafted application that calls the mkdir and link functions, related to the fsck_hfs program in the diskdev_cmds component.

EPSS: 0.008 (54.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.6.0, 10.6.3, 10.6.4
  • N/a — versions n/a

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