PT-2024-31068 · Apple · Visionos+8

Hossein Lotfi + 1 · Published 2024-10-28 · Updated 2025-01-09 · CVE-2024-44240

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple tvOS versions prior to 18.1 Apple iOS versions prior to 18.1 Apple iPadOS versions prior to 18.1 Apple iOS versions prior to 17.7.1 Apple iPadOS versions prior to 17.7.1 Apple macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.7.1 Apple macOS Sonoma versions prior to 14.7.1 Apple watchOS versions prior to 11.1 Apple visionOS versions prior to 2.1

Description The issue is related to the processing of maliciously crafted fonts, which may result in the disclosure of process memory. This is due to an out-of-bounds read information disclosure in the CoreText Font Ligature Caret List Parsing.

Recommendations For Apple tvOS versions prior to 18.1, update to tvOS 18.1 or later. For Apple iOS versions prior to 18.1, update to iOS 18.1 or later. For Apple iPadOS versions prior to 18.1, update to iPadOS 18.1 or later. For Apple iOS versions prior to 17.7.1, update to iOS 17.7.1 or later. For Apple iPadOS versions prior to 17.7.1, update to iPadOS 17.7.1 or later. For Apple macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.7.1, update to macOS Ventura 13.7.1 or later. For Apple macOS Sonoma versions prior to 14.7.1, update to macOS Sonoma 14.7.1 or later. For Apple watchOS versions prior to 11.1, update to watchOS 11.1 or later. For Apple visionOS versions prior to 2.1, update to visionOS 2.1 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-44240

ZDI-24-1442

ZDI-25-015

ZDI-25-016

Affected Products

Coretext

Apple Macos

Ios

Ipados

Macos Sonoma

Macos Ventura

Tvos

Visionos

Watchos

References · 22

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-015 · Security Note
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-016 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/121566 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-44240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/121568 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/121565 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/121567 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/121569 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44240 · Security Note
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-24-1442 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/121570 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/121563 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-44240 · Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Oct/15 · Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Oct/12 · Note