PT-2015-4089 · Apple · Os X

Published 2015-01-30 · Updated 2017-09-08 · CVE-2014-8823

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.7

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple OS X versions prior to 10.10.2

Description The issue allows local users with root access to read data from arbitrary kernel-memory locations by providing a crafted first argument to the IOUSBControllerUserClient::ReadRegister function in the IOUSB controller.

Recommendations For versions prior to 10.10.2, update to version 10.10.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8823

Affected Products

Os X

References · 6

• 🔥 http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=21 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8823 · Security Note
• http://support.apple.com/HT204244 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031650 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100514 · Note