CVE-2010-0105

medium

Published 2010-04-27 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.9

Description

The hfs implementation in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x before 10.6.5 supports hard links to directories and does not prevent certain deeply nested directory structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (filesystem corruption) via a crafted application that calls the mkdir and link functions, related to the fsck_hfs program in the diskdev_cmds component.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-12375 dos osx verified

Maksymilian Arciemowicz · 2010-04-24

Apple Mac OSX 10.6 - HFS FileSystem (Denial of Service)

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OS impact

macOS Affected 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10.6.4	Affected	—
10.6.3	Affected	—
10.6.2	Affected	—
10.6.1	Affected	—
10.6.0	Affected	—
10.5.8	Affected	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.