CVE-2011-3449: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in CoreText in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted embedded font in a document.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.7.2; version 10.7.0 only; version 10.7.1 only
  • Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.7.2; version 10.7.0 only; version 10.7.1 only

Published 2012-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.