CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-3723
4.6 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-09-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.5 does not properly handle the bNbrPorts field of a USB hub descriptor, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by attaching a USB device.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.7.4)
• apple mac os x 10.0
• apple mac os x 10.0.0
• apple mac os x 10.0.1
• apple mac os x 10.0.2
• apple mac os x 10.0.3
• apple mac os x 10.0.4
• apple mac os x 10.1
• apple mac os x 10.1.0
• apple mac os x 10.1.1
• apple mac os x 10.1.2
• apple mac os x 10.1.3
• apple mac os x 10.1.4
• apple mac os x 10.1.5
• apple mac os x 10.2
• apple mac os x 10.2.0
• apple mac os x 10.2.1
• apple mac os x 10.2.2
• apple mac os x 10.2.3
• apple mac os x 10.2.4
• apple mac os x 10.2.5
• apple mac os x 10.2.6
• apple mac os x 10.2.7
• apple mac os x 10.2.8
• apple mac os x 10.3
• apple mac os x 10.3.0
• apple mac os x 10.3.1
• apple mac os x 10.3.2
• apple mac os x 10.3.3
• apple mac os x 10.3.4
• apple mac os x 10.3.5
• apple mac os x 10.3.6
• apple mac os x 10.3.7
• apple mac os x 10.3.8
• apple mac os x 10.3.9
• apple mac os x 10.4
• apple mac os x 10.4.0
• apple mac os x 10.4.1
• apple mac os x 10.4.2
• apple mac os x 10.4.3
• apple mac os x 10.4.4
• apple mac os x 10.4.5
• apple mac os x 10.4.6
• apple mac os x 10.4.7
• apple mac os x 10.4.8
• apple mac os x 10.4.9
• apple mac os x 10.4.10
• apple mac os x 10.4.11
• apple mac os x 10.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.0
• apple mac os x 10.5.1
• apple mac os x 10.5.2
• apple mac os x 10.5.3
• apple mac os x 10.5.4
• apple mac os x 10.5.5
• apple mac os x 10.5.6
• apple mac os x 10.5.7
• apple mac os x 10.5.8
• apple mac os x 10.6.0
• apple mac os x 10.6.1
… and 82 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78750 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78750 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com