CVE-2008-0056: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in Foundation in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a "long pathname with an unexpected structure" that triggers the overflow in NSFileManager.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.11 only
  • Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.11 only

Published 2008-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.