CVE-2009-2194 Information

Description

Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.8 does not properly share file descriptors over local sockets which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by placing file descriptors in messages sent to a socket that has no receiver related to a \synchronization issue.\

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html http://osvdb.org/56836 http://secunia.com/advisories/36096 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35954 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022672 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52439