CVE-2008-0988: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the Libsystem strnstr API in libc on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted arguments that trigger a buffer over-read.

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.