CVE-2010-4011

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Dovecot in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.5 10H574 does not properly manage memory for user names, which allows remote authenticated users to read the private e-mail of other persons in opportunistic circumstances via standard e-mail clients accessing a user's own mailbox, related to a "memory aliasing issue."

Affected products

Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.6.5-10h574

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00001.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4452
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00001.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4452

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