CVE-2009-2190: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

launchd in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (individual service outage) by making many connections to an inetd-based launchd service.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.5.6 only; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.5 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 2009-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.