CVE-2010-3790: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

QuickTime in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted movie file that causes an image sample transformation to scale a sprite outside a buffer boundary.

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; version 10.6.4 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; version 10.6.4 only
  • Apple Quicktime: any version

Published 2010-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.