Description
Race condition in the HFS vfs sysctl interface in XNU 1228.8.20 and earlier on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory corruption) by simultaneously executing the same HFS_SET_PKG_EXTENSIONS code path in multiple threads, which is problematic because of lack of mutex locking for an unspecified global variable.
Published: 2009-04-02
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-1237 Race condition in the HFS vfs sysctl interface in XNU 1228.8.20 and earlier on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory corruption) by simultaneously executing the same HFS_SET_PKG_EXTENSIONS code path in multiple threads, which is problematic because of lack of mutex locking for an unspecified global variable.
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Apple Mac Os X Mac Os X Server
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:04:49.425Z

Reserved: 2009-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-1238

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Status : Modified

Published: 2009-04-02T17:30:00.390

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-1238

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