CVE-2010-0105 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause filesystem corruption and denial of service in macOS HFS by exploiting hard link and nesting flaws.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2010-0105?
CVE-2010-0105 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 27 Apr 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The hfs implementation in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x before 10.6.5 supports hard links to directories and does not prevent certain deeply nested directory structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (filesystem corruption) via a crafted application that calls the mkdir and link functions, related to the fsck_hfs program in the diskdev_cmds component.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0105?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Apple Mac Os X.
How do I fix CVE-2010-0105?
No fix has been published for CVE-2010-0105 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-2010-0105 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-0105 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Apple Mac Os X
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m3r9-2fp3-p448.