CVE-2005-3706: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in LibSystem in Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by causing an application that uses LibSystem to request a large amount of memory.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4 only; version 10.4.1 only; version 10.4.2 only; version 10.4.3 only; version 10.4.4 only; version 10.4.5 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4 only; version 10.4.1 only; version 10.4.2 only; version 10.4.3 only; version 10.4.4 only; version 10.4.5 only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.