CVE-2005-0969: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the syscall emulation functionality in Mac OS X before 10.3.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted parameters.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; version 10.0.4 only; version 10.1 only; …

Published 2005-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.