CVE-2014-4434: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in Apple OS X before 10.10 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted filename on an HFS filesystem.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.9.5

Published 2014-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.