CVE-2009-2835: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 does not properly handle task state segments, which allows local users to gain privileges, cause a denial of service (system crash), or obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.6.1; 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 10.6.1; 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 2009-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.