CVE-2005-0969 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2005-0969?

CVE-2005-0969 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 12 May 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the syscall emulation functionality in Mac OS X before 10.3.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted parameters.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0969?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2005-0969?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-0969 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2005-0969 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-0969 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4v49-vppm-4jh8.