PT-2015-7090

CVE-2015-5940

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Published

2015-10-23

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Updated

2016-12-24

Description by

CVSS 2.0
6.8
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple iOS versions prior to 9.1 Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11.1
Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service due to memory corruption via a crafted web site, when multi-threading is enabled in the Accelerate Framework component. This occurs because the component omits certain validation and locking steps.
Recommendations For Apple iOS versions prior to 9.1, update to version 9.1 or later. For Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11.1, update to version 10.11.1 or later.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Related identifiers
CVE-2015-5940
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