CoreText in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.4.10 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text content that triggers an access of an uninitialized object pointer.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4682
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38465
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1018950
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/498105
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868