PT-2016-3545 · Apple+3 · Os X+3

Published 2016-07-22 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-9862

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11.6

Description The issue is caused by an integer signedness error in the bspatch.c file of the bsdiff library, which is used in Apple OS X and other products. This error allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through a heap-based buffer overflow by providing a crafted patch file.

Recommendations For Apple OS X versions prior to 10.11.6, update to version 10.11.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

DoS

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9862

DLA-2010-1

DLA-697-1

FREEBSD-SA-16_25

MGASA-2016-0288

MGASA-2022-0334

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3094-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3456-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10045-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12242-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3094-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3455-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3456-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3671-1

SUSE-SU-2022_3094-1

SUSE-SU-2022_3455-1

SUSE-SU-2022_3456-1

SUSE-SU-2022_3671-1

USN-4500-1

Affected Products

Os X

Freebsd

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 56

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9862 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-44 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10045-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/HT206903 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0288.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4500-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9862 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0334.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-2010-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4500-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/bsdiff · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3671-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9862 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9862 · Security Note