CVE-2009-2827: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Disk Images in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted FAT filesystem on a disk image.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.5.8 only
  • Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.5.8 only

Published 2009-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.