CVE-2010-0056 — Buffer overflow in Cocoa spell checking in AppKit in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted document

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Buffer overflow in Cocoa spell checking in AppKit in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted document

Published Mar 30, 2010

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.53%

Description

Buffer overflow in Cocoa spell checking in AppKit in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted document.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.53% 0.02531

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02531

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.53% (0.02531)	84.36th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.53% (0.02531)	82.81th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	1.45% (0.01449)	79.43th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.77% (0.00769)	81.95th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 10, 2024	0.26% (0.00257)	65.29th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.25% (0.00246)	64.24th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.22% (0.00222)	59.74th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.28% (0.00280)	67.53th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.69% (0.00686)	76.97th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	3.18% (0.03184)	84.08th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	3.18% (0.03184)	82.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	3.18% (0.03184)	65.11th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (1)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner apple

Published Mar 30, 2010

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Dec 15, 2009

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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