CVE-2019-8508 - A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking

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HIGH

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking

Published Dec 18, 2019

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.42%

Description

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave 10.14.4. Mounting a maliciously crafted NFS network share may lead to arbitrary code execution with system privileges.

Affected products

Vendor Apple Product macOS Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <macOS Mojave 10.14.4

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Apple

macOS

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<macOS Mojave 10.14.4

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-120

Classic Buffer Overflow

References (2)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-17898
Advisory
https://support.apple.com/HT209600
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-17898		Advisory
https://support.apple.com/HT209600		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner apple

Published Dec 18, 2019

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Feb 18, 2019

Link CVE-2019-8508

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-8508

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2019-8508

ENISA EUVD

Assigner apple

Published Dec 18, 2019

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Exploited since n/a

Link EUVD-2019-17898

EUVD-2019-17898