Buffer overflow in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2013-6799

Apple Mac OS X 10.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or panic) by creating a hard link to a directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-0105.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.008 (51.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.9
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)