CVE-2005-3712: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in rsync in Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.5 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via long extended attributes.

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.