CVE-2008-4219 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-4219?

CVE-2008-4219 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 17 Dec 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and system halt) by running an application that is dynamically linked to libraries on an NFS server, related to occurrence of an exception in this application.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4219?

It affects 2 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2008-4219?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4219 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-4219 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4219 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-49m6-w46f-fp87.