CVE-2010-0517

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in QuickTime in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted movie file with M-JPEG encoding, which causes QuickTime to calculate a buffer size using height and width fields, but to use a different field to control the length of a copy operation.

Affected products

macOS: 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00002.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510511/100/0/threaded
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-037
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6673
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00002.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510511/100/0/threaded
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-037
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6673

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