CVE-2009-1236: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the AppleTalk networking stack in XNU 1228.3.13 and earlier on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a ZIP NOTIFY (aka ZIPOP_NOTIFY) packet that overwrites a certain ifPort structure member.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.5.6; version 10.0 only; version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.5.6; version 10.0 only; version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; …

Published 2009-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.