CVE-2010-1840

high

Published 2010-11-15 · 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

8.5

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the password-validation functionality in Directory Services in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x before 10.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-15491 dos osx verified

Rodrigo Rubira · 2010-11-11

Apple Directory Services - Memory Corruption

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

macOS Affected 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10.6.4	Affected	—
10.6.3	Affected	—
10.6.2	Affected	—
10.6.1	Affected	—
10.6.0	Affected	—
10.5.8	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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