CVE-2007-0229: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the ffs_mountfs function in Mac OS X 10.4.8 and FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted DMG image that causes "allocation of a negative size buffer" leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2006-5679. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.8 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.8 only
• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.1 only

Published 2007-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.