CVE-2006-3497: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the "compression state handling" in Bom for Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.7 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Zip archive.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.3.9 only; version 10.4.7 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.3.9 only; version 10.4.7 only

Published 2006-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.