CVE-2008-4219: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and system halt) by running an application that is dynamically linked to libraries on an NFS server, related to occurrence of an exception in this application.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.5.5; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.5.5; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only

Published 2008-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.