CVE-2008-4219

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and system halt) by running an application that is dynamically linked to libraries on an NFS server, related to occurrence of an exception in this application.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.5.5; 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4
Apple Mac Os X Server: through 10.5.5; 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33179
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32873
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021404
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33179
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32839

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