01 Record
CVE-2010-0056
Buffer overflow in Cocoa spell checking in AppKit in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: apple
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Buffer overflow in Cocoa spell checking in AppKit in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.53% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2010-03-30 17:00Z16 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 03:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-12-15
- Assigning CNA
- apple
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 0c77ebb67689892ab33c3977e6ed4afec50b005c39d6124e800d76038b89d056
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2010-03-29-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html