CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8817
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-01-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19
Description
coresymbolicationd in CoreSymbolication in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that expected data types are present in XPC messages, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app, as demonstrated by lack of verification of xpc_dictionary_get_value API return values during handling of a (1) match_mmap_archives, (2) delete_mmap_archives, (3) write_mmap_archive, or (4) read_mmap_archive command.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.10.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/HT204244 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031650 www.securitytracker.com
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=80 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100496 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/HT204244 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031650 www.securitytracker.com
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=80 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100496 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com