CVE-2009-2839 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2009-2839?

CVE-2009-2839 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 10 Nov 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Screen Sharing in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows remote VNC servers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2839?

It affects 2 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2009-2839?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2839 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-2009-2839 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2839 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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