CVE-2006-6353: Apple Bomarchivehelper

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in BOMArchiveHelper in Mac OS X allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors related to (1) certain KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE thread crashes and (2) certain KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS thread crashes, as discovered with the "iSec Partners FileP fuzzer".

Affected products

• Apple Bomarchivehelper: any version
• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.8 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.8 only

Published 2006-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.