PT-2015-7437

CVE-2015-6984

Published

2015-10-23

Updated

2015-10-26

CVSS 2.0

8.8

High

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libarchive in Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11.1

Description The issue allows attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted app that conducts an unspecified symlink attack.

Recommendations For libarchive in Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11.1, update to version 10.11.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

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