CVE-2012-0661

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in QuickTime in Apple Mac OS X 10.7.x before 10.7.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted movie file with JPEG2000 encoding.

Affected products

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

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00005.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5261
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53445
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53466
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00005.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5261
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53445
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53466

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