Integer underflow in CoreFoundation in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via…

Description

Integer underflow in CoreFoundation in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving conversions from string to file system representation within (1) CFStringGetFileSystemRepresentation or (2) getFileSystemRepresentation:maxLength:withPath in NSFileManager, and possibly other similar API functions.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 17951 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2006-1779 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• TA06-132A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• 25587 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2006-05-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• macos-corefoundation-integer-underflow(26408) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 20077 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1016080 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 17:12 UTC.