National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2190

Overview

launchd in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (individual service outage) by making many connections to an inetd-based launchd service.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-218A

Name: TA09-218A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-2172

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172

External Source: BID

Name: 35954

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35954

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2009-08-05-1

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html

External Source: XF

Name: macosx-launchd-dos(52425)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/52425

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022672

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022672

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36096

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36096

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 56841

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/56841