Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-0990 First vendor Publication 2008-03-18
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-08-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.4 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

notifyd in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 does not verify that Mach port death notifications have originated from the kernel, which allows local users to cause a denial of service via spoofed death notifications that prevent other applications from receiving notifications.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0990

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1
Os 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
43392 Apple Mac OS X notifyd Spoofed Port Death Notification Local DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-03-19 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2008-002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28304
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28345
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079A.html
CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019663
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41289

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