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CVE-2009-2468
Integer overflow in Apple CoreGraphics, as used in Safari before 4.0.3, Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.8,…
High10.0EPSS 6.3%
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- redhat
Description
Integer overflow in Apple CoreGraphics, as used in Safari before 4.0.3, Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.8, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long text run that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow during font glyph rendering, a related issue to CVE-2009-1194.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.3% · top 6.3% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- APPLE-SA-2009-08-11-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480134 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2009-09-10-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 35758 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1022717 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-36.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 36701 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35914 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1972 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 264308 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3733 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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