CVE-2006-6127: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Mac OS X kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service via a process that uses kevent to register a queue and an event, then fork a child process that uses kevent to register an event for the same queue as the parent.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.8 only
  • Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.8 only

Published 2006-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.