CVE-2009-0149: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5 before 10.5.7 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (application crash) by attempting to mount a crafted sparse disk image that triggers memory corruption.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5.0 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: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only; …

Published 2009-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.