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CVE-2009-1238

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2009-04-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in the HFS vfs sysctl interface in XNU 1228.8.20 and earlier on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory corruption) by simultaneously executing the same HFS_SET_PKG_EXTENSIONS code path in multiple threads, which is problematic because of lack of mutex locking for an unspecified global variable.

Affected Platforms

Apple Mac Os X ServerApple Mac Os X

Weakness Type

CWE-362

References