CVE-2013-5174 — Integer signedness error in the kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted tty read operation

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Integer signedness error in the kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted tty read operation

Published Oct 24, 2013

4.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.31%

Description

Integer signedness error in the kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted tty read operation.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.31% 0.00314

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00314

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.31% (0.00314)	22.02th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.31% (0.00314)	22.91th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.14% (0.00138)	31.10th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-189

References (1)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner apple

Published Oct 24, 2013

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Aug 15, 2013

Link CVE-2013-5174

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2013-5174

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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