CVE-2010-1379

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Printer Setup in Apple Mac OS X 10.6 before 10.6.4 does not properly interpret character encoding, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (printing failure) by deploying a printing device that has a Unicode character in its printing-service name.

Affected products

macOS: 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40220
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024103
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40871
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40220
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024103
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40871
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481

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