A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Apple tvOS up to 11.1 (Digital Media Player). Affected is an unknown functionality of the component IOSurface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 12/04/2017 by Ian Beer with Google Project Zero as HT208327 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-13861 since 08/30/2017. Local access is required to approach this attack. The successful exploitation needs a authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The advisory points out:

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

Upgrading to version 11.2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at 110371, 110372, 110373 and 110374.

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