CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8823
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-01-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The IOUSBControllerUserClient::ReadRegister function in the IOUSB controller in IOUSBFamily in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 allows local users to read data from arbitrary kernel-memory locations by leveraging root access and providing a crafted first argument.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.10.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=21 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/HT204244 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031650 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100514 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=21 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/HT204244 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031650 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100514 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com