CVE-2003-0895

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-11-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the Mac OS X kernel 10.2.8 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to cause a denial of service (crash), access portions of memory, and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument (argv[]).

Affected products

macOS: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5 (+3)

References

http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a102803-3.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8913
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13541
http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a102803-3.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8913
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13541

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