PT-2015-2081 · Apple · Webkit+3

Published 2015-09-16 · Updated 2016-12-22 · CVE-2015-5823

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 JavaScriptCore in Apple iOS versions prior to 9 JavaScriptCore in Apple iTunes versions prior to 12.3

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 web site. This is due to insufficient input validation in the WebKit component.

Recommendations For iOS versions prior to 9, update to version 9 or later to resolve the issue. For iTunes versions prior to 12.3, update to version 12.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-11427

CVE-2015-5823

MGASA-2016-0116

Affected Products

Javascriptcore

Webkit

Ios

Itunes

References · 34

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5823 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5823 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/HT205212 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0116.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5823 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/HT205221 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/HT205265 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11427 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5823 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00007.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/76764 · Note
• http://webkitgtk.org/2015/07/08/webkitgtk2.8.4-released.html · Note