CVE-2009-0017: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

csregprinter in the Printing component in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.6 does not properly handle error conditions, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors that trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5.6 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5.6 only

Published 2009-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.