CVE-2010-0059
CoreAudio in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via crafted audio content with QDM2 encoding, which triggers a buffer overflow due to inconsistent length fields, related to QDCA.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 4.6% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0091)
- Published
- March 30, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0091 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Apple Mac OS X 10.6 - Apple Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0536-2010 - archived
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00002.html
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510517/100/0/threaded
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-041
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6922
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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