CVE-2010-1379: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Printer Setup in Apple Mac OS X 10.6 before 10.6.4 does not properly interpret character encoding, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (printing failure) by deploying a printing device that has a Unicode character in its printing-service name.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only

Published 2010-06-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.