CVE-2012-5366 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5366?

CVE-2012-5366 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 20 Feb 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The IPv6 implementation in Apple Mac OS X (unknown versions, year 2012 and earlier) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a flood of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets containing multiple Routing entries.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5366?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5366?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5366 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-2012-5366 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5366 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-q5hw-29mh-hqq5.