PT-2015-2283 · Apple · Os X

Dennis Klein + 3 · Published 2015-10-09 · Updated 2016-12-08 · CVE-2015-5883

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11

Description The issue arises from insufficient input validation in the bidirectional text-display and text-selection implementations. This allows a remote attacker to substitute the content of text documents using a specially crafted sequence of characters. The implementations in Terminal interpret directional override formatting characters differently, enabling the exploitation.

Recommendations For Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11, update to version 10.11 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-11637

CVE-2015-5883

Affected Products

Os X

References · 6

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/HT205267 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5883 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11637 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/76908 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1033703 · Note