CVE-2010-3798: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in xar 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 (application crash) via a crafted xar archive.

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

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