PT-2015-1909 · Apple · Os X+3

Day6Reak + 1 · Published 2015-08-06 · Updated 2016-12-24 · CVE-2015-5755

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple iOS versions prior to 8.4.1 Apple OS X versions prior to 10.10.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service, resulting in memory corruption and application crash, via a crafted font file. This is due to a buffer overflow in the CoreText component of the operating systems.

Recommendations For Apple iOS versions prior to 8.4.1, update to version 8.4.1 or later to resolve the issue. For Apple OS X versions prior to 10.10.5, update to version 10.10.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-11255

CVE-2015-5755

Affected Products

Coretext

Os X

Ios

Itunes

References · 11

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/HT205221 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11255 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5755 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205030 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/ru-ru/HT205221 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1033275 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/76343 · Note