CVE-2010-1847 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-1847?

CVE-2010-1847 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 16 Nov 2010. 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 10.6.x before 10.6.5 does not properly perform memory management associated with terminal devices, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1847?

It affects 2 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2010-1847?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-1847 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-2010-1847 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-1847 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-fp3r-94r5-q562.