CVE-2009-2804

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in ColorSync in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.8, and Safari before 4.0.4 on Windows, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ColorSync profile embedded in an image, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4.11, 10.5.8
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.4.11, 10.5.8
Apple Safari: through 4.0.3; 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0 (+61)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
http://osvdb.org/57949
http://secunia.com/advisories/36701
http://secunia.com/advisories/37346
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3949
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36357
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3217
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53166
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html

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