PT-2015-6289

CVE-2015-3691

Published

2015-07-03

Updated

2017-09-22

Description by

CVSS 2.0

9.3

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple OS X versions prior to 10.10.4

Description The issue allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app that leverages control of a function pointer, specifically targeting the Monitor Control Command Set kernel extension in the Display Drivers subsystem.

Recommendations For versions prior to 10.10.4, update to version 10.10.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Aristide Fattori

Roberto Paleari

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-284: Improper Access Control

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