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CVE-2011-3459

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% 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-189

Description

Off-by-one error in QuickTime 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 rdrf atom in a movie file that triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• macOS: through 10.7.2; 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4, 10.6.5 (+5)
• Apple Mac Os X Server: through 10.7.2; 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4, 10.6.5 (+5)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00005.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5261
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00005.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5261

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