CVE-2008-2320
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 3.8%EU EUVD
Stack-based buffer overflow in CarbonCore in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long filename to the file management API.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.8% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2316)
- Published
- August 4, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2316 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / carboncore
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html(Patch)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html(Patch)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31326(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35379(Vendor Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495040/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30483(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30487(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020602
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2268(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44126
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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