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7.5
CWE
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Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2009-2833: Buffer Overflow

First published: Tue Nov 10 2009(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
macOS Yosemite=10.5.8
Apple Mac OS X Server=10.5.8

Remedy

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html

Remedy

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937

Remedy

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956

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