PT-2015-1913 · Apple · Os X+3

Day6Reak + 1 · Published 2015-08-06 · Updated 2016-12-24 · CVE-2015-5761

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 is caused by a buffer overflow in the CoreText component of iOS and Mac OS X operating systems. Exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service by using a specially crafted font file.

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:2015-11259

CVE-2015-5761

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/2015-11259 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205030 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5761 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/ru-ru/HT205221 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1033275 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/76343 · Note