CVE-2005-0969

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the syscall emulation functionality in Mac OS X before 10.3.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted parameters.

Affected products

macOS: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.1 (+23)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Apr/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Apr/msg00000.html

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