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CVE-2013-6799

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-11-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• macOS: 10.9

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0033.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0051.html
• http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2013110059
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0033.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0051.html
• http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2013110059

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