CVE-2005-0716: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Core Foundation Library in Mac OS X 10.3.5 and 10.3.6, and possibly earlier versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long CF_CHARSET_PATH environment variable.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.3 only; version 10.3.1 only; version 10.3.2 only; version 10.3.3 only; version 10.3.4 only; version 10.3.5 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.3 only; version 10.3.1 only; version 10.3.2 only; version 10.3.3 only; version 10.3.4 only; version 10.3.5 only; …

Published 2005-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.