CVE-2009-2804: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in ColorSync in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.8, and Safari before 4.0.4 on Windows, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ColorSync profile embedded in an image, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5.8 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.11 only; version 10.5.8 only
• Apple Safari: up to and including 4.0.3; version 0.8 only; version 0.9 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.0b1 only; …

Published 2009-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.