CVE-2013-1024

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-06-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

CoreMedia Playback in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.4 does not properly initialize memory during the processing of text tracks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted movie file.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.8.3; 10.7.0, 10.7.1, 10.7.2, 10.7.3, 10.7.4, 10.7.5 (+3)
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.7.0, 10.7.1, 10.7.2, 10.7.3, 10.7.4, 10.7.5

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00009.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6001
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00009.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6001

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