CVE-2008-2320

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in CarbonCore in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long filename to the file management API.

Affected products

Apple Carboncore: all versions

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31326
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495040/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30483
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30487
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020602
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2268

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