CVE-2009-2468

CriticalCVSS 10.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 10.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-189

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 22, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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