CVE-2010-3789

medium

Published 2010-11-16 · 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

QuickTime in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.x before 10.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted AVI file.

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 Affected 5 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	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apple	quicktime

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.