01 Record
CVE-2010-1837
CoreText in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x before 10.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted font in a PDF document.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: apple
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
CoreText in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x before 10.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted font in a PDF document.
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
- 2.84% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.4% 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
- 2010-11-15 22:00Z15 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 01:35Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2010-05-06
- 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
- 202de46cc36b0934478985ffb8d5666ae60094d9670cfe8dba4c83d32ce5bef7
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1024723http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024723
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- www.securityfocus.com44808http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44808