CVE-2010-0538

medium

Published 2010-05-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

Apple Java for Mac OS X 10.5 before Update 7 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 before Update 2 do not properly handle mediaLibImage objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted applet, related to the com.sun.medialib.mlib package.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

macOS Fixed 11 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10.6.1	Not affected	—
10.6.0	Not affected	—
10.6	Not affected	—
10.5.6	Not affected	—
10.5.5	Not affected	—
10.5.4	Not affected	—
10.5.3	Not affected	—
10.5.2	Not affected	—
10.5.1	Not affected	—
10.5.0	Not affected	—
10.5	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apple	java

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.