CVE-2008-0989 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2008-0989?

CVE-2008-0989 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 18 Mar 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Format string vulnerability in mDNSResponderHelper in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the local hostname.

Weakness: CWE-134

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-0989?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server.

How do I fix CVE-2008-0989?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-0989 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2008-0989 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-0989 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-vp33-r976-5vjp.