CVE-2010-3798

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in xar in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted xar archive.

Affected products

macOS: 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024723
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2S2KRIILUKBJHXDNYJQQX74TFUQRG5ND/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YV6RF6VWM7AFYFTTS7VY5TNH26QUEEFC/
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024723
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2S2KRIILUKBJHXDNYJQQX74TFUQRG5ND/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YV6RF6VWM7AFYFTTS7VY5TNH26QUEEFC/

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