CVE-2008-3643: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Finder in Mac OS X 10.5.5 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (continuous termination and restart) via a crafted Desktop file that generates an error when producing its icon, related to an "error recovery issue."

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.5.5 only
  • Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.5.5 only

Published 2008-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.