CVE-2011-0241

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in ImageIO in Apple Safari before 5.0.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted TIFF image with CCITT Group 4 encoding.

Affected products

Apple Imageio: all versions
Apple Safari: through 5.0.5; 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0, 1.0.0b1, 1.0.0b2 (+59)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jul/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4808
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4999
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5001
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00002.html

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