CVE-2010-0517: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in QuickTime in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted movie file with M-JPEG encoding, which causes QuickTime to calculate a buffer size using height and width fields, but to use a different field to control the length of a copy operation.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only

Published 2010-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.