VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-0539

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

Integer signedness error in the window drawing implementation in Apple Java for Mac OS X 10.5 before Update 7 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 before Update 2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted applet.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
macos macOS Fixed 11 releases
VersionStatusFixed 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
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos applejava_1.50
macos applejava_1.60

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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

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