Description
Apple Mac OS X kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service via a process that uses kevent to register a queue and an event, then fork a child process that uses kevent to register an event for the same queue as the parent.
References
- 26444 vdb-entry
- macosx-kqueue-dos(30544) vdb-entry
- 21285 vdb-entry
- APPLE-SA-2007-11-14 vendor-advisory
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
- ADV-2006-4715 vdb-entry
- 23114 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2007-3868 vdb-entry
- 27643 third-party-advisory
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-24-11-2006.html
- TA07-319A third-party-advisory
- 30695 vdb-entry