PT-2015-4089
CVE-2014-8823
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Published
2015-01-30
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Updated
2017-09-08
Description by
CVSS 2.0
4.7
MediumMetricsAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Apple OS X versions prior to 10.10.2
Description
The issue allows local users with root access to read data from arbitrary kernel-memory locations by providing a crafted first argument to the IOUSBControllerUserClient::ReadRegister function in the IOUSB controller.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 10.10.2, update to version 10.10.2 or later to resolve the issue.
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