PT-2016-2047

CVE-2016-1818

Published

2016-05-20

Updated

2019-03-08

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 iOS and Mac OS X (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the IOAcceleratorFamily component of iOS and Mac OS X operating systems. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) using a specially crafted application.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Impacts

Researchers

Juwei Lin

Sweetchip

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Related identifiers

CVE-2016-1818

BDU:2016-01398