PT-2015-2289
CVE-2015-5891
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Published
2015-10-09
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Updated
2016-12-08
Description by
CVSS 2.0
7.2
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
OS X versions prior to 10.11
Description
The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the SMB implementation of the Mac OS X kernel. This can be exploited by a local attacker to gain elevated privileges or cause a denial of service, resulting in memory corruption.
Recommendations
For OS X versions prior to 10.11, update to version 10.11 or later to resolve the issue.
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