CVE-2005-0972: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the searchfs system call in Mac OS X 10.3.9 and earlier allows local users to 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; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.0 only; version 10.1 only; version 10.1.1 only; version 10.1.2 only; version 10.1.3 only; version 10.1.4 only; …

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