CVE-2009-2833: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the UCCompareTextDefault API in International Components for Unicode in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

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.