PT-2013-5422 · Apple · Macos X

Published 2013-10-24 · Updated 2013-10-24 · CVE-2013-5177

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mac OS X versions prior to 10.9

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system panic, by utilizing an invalid iovec structure.

Recommendations For versions prior to 10.9, update to version 10.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-5177

Affected Products

Macos X

References · 2

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5177 · Security Note