The kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 does not properly handle task state segments, which allows local users to gain privileges, cause a denial of service (system crash), or obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.6 that is older than version 10.6.2.  Mac OS X 10.6.2 contains security fixes for the following products : 

  - Adaptive Firewall

  - Apache

  - Apache Protable Runtime

  - Certificate Assistant

  - CoreMedia

  - CUPS

  - DoveCot

  - fetchmail

  - file

  - FTP Server

  - Help Viewer

  - ImageIO

  - IOKit

  - IPSec

  - Kernel

  - Launch Services

  - libsecurity

  - libxml

 Login Window

  - OpenLDAP

  - QuickDraw Manager

QuickTime

  - Screen Sharing

  - Subversion

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.6.x that is prior to 10.6.2.

Mac OS X 10.6.2 contains security fixes for the following products :

  - Adaptive Firewall
  - Apache
  - Apache Portable Runtime
  - Certificate Assistant
  - CoreMedia
  - CUPS
  - Dovecot
  - fetchmail
  - file
  - FTP Server
  - Help Viewer
  - ImageIO
  - IOKit
  - IPSec
  - Kernel
  - Launch Services
  - libsecurity
  - libxml
  - Login Window
  - OpenLDAP
  - QuickDraw Manager
  - QuickTime
  - Screen Sharing
  - Subversion

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
800795	Mac OS X 10.6 < 10.6.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Log Correlation Engine	Operating System Detection	high
5227	Mac OS X 10.6 < 10.6.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Generic	critical
42434	Mac OS X 10.6.x < 10.6.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2009-2835

high

Tenable Plugins

high

critical

critical