CVE-2010-0538

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-05-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Apple Java for Mac OS X 10.5 before Update 7 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 before Update 2 do not properly handle mediaLibImage objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted applet, related to the com.sun.medialib.mlib package.

Affected products

Apple Java: all versions

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//May/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//May/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39819
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024011
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4170
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4171
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40238
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1191
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//May/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//May/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39819
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024011

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