CVE-2011-3449

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in CoreText in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted embedded font in a document.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.7.2; 10.7.0, 10.7.1
Apple Mac Os X Server: through 10.7.2; 10.7.0, 10.7.1

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130

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