CVE-2006-1983
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 7.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the (1) PredictorVSetField function for TIFF or (2) CFAllocatorAllocate function for GIF, as used in applications that use ImageIO or AppKit. NOTE: the BMP vector has been re-assigned to CVE-2006-2238 because it affects a separate product family.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.9% · top 5.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
16
- 17951 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1779 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- TA06-132A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://www.security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3233 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1016067 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 24821 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- macosx-cfallocatorallocate-bo(25949) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2006-05-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- macosx-predictorvsetfield-bo(25951) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1452 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 17634 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 24822 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20077 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.security-protocols.com/sp-x28-advisory.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 19686 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.security-protocols.com/sp-x30-advisory.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-1983 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-1983)Record last updated .