CVE-2013-0983

medium
Published 2013-06-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in CoreAnimation in Apple Mac OS X before 10.8.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted text glyph in a URL encountered by Safari.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected
macos macos10.8.0affected
macos macos10.8.1affected
macos macos10.8.2affected

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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