PT-2012-4985 · Apple · Ios

Pod2G · Published 2012-09-20 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-3745

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple iOS versions prior to 6

Description The issue is caused by an off-by-one error in the Telephony component, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a buffer overflow and connectivity outage. This can be achieved via a crafted user-data header in an SMS message.

Recommendations For versions prior to 6, update to version 6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3745

Affected Products

Ios

References · 4

• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3745 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78722 · Note