CVE-2008-3608: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ImageIO in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5 through 10.5.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted JPEG image with an embedded ICC profile.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only
  • Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only

Published 2008-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.