PT-2010-3464 · Apple · Macos X+1

Published 2010-11-15 · Updated 2011-01-12 · CVE-2010-1837

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CoreText in Apple Mac OS X versions 10.5.8 and 10.6.x through 10.6.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service due to memory corruption via a crafted font in a PDF document.

Recommendations For Mac OS X version 10.5.8, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. For Mac OS X versions 10.6.x through 10.6.4, update to version 10.6.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-1837

Affected Products

Coretext

Macos X

References · 5

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1837 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1024723 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/44808 · Note