CVE-2007-0646

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in iMovie HD 6.0.3, and Safari in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.10, allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in a filename, which is not properly handled when calling the NSRunCriticalAlertPanel Apple AppKit function.

Affected products

Apple iMovie: 6.0.3
macOS: 10.3.9
Apple Safari: all versions

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24966
http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
http://www.digitalmunition.com/MOAB-30-01-2007.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22326
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470

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