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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-1237 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:04:49.425Z

Reserved: 2009-04-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-1238

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-04-02T17:30:00.390

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-1238

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