CVE-2010-1847: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.5 does not properly perform memory management associated with terminal devices, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only

Published 2010-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.