PT-2015-6284 · Apple+1 · Ios+2

Day6Reak + 1 · Published 2015-07-03 · Updated 2017-09-22 · CVE-2015-3686

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 8.0 through 8.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a reboot and messaging disruption, via crafted Unicode text that is not properly handled during display truncation in the Notifications feature. This can be triggered by sending Arabic characters in an SMS message or a WhatsApp message.

Recommendations For Apple iOS versions 8.0 through 8.3, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent denial of service attacks.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3686

Affected Products

Ios

Whatsapp

Itunes

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3686 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204941 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/HT205221 · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204942 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/75491 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/ru-ru/HT205221 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1032760 · Note