CVE-2009-2833

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956Patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956Patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184

Timeline

Published: Nov 10, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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