Hex-Rays SA IDA up to 6.4 Mach-O Loader File Remote Code Execution

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A vulnerability was found in Hex-Rays SA IDA up to 6.4 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Mach-O Loader. The manipulation as part of a File leads to a unknown weakness. The impact remains unknown.

The weakness was shared 06/13/2014 by George Hotz as Cumulative fix of potentially critical bugs found in IDA as confirmed release notes (Website). The advisory is shared for download at hex-rays.com. The vendor cooperated in the coordination of the public release. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 159 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 6.5 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at hex-rays.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. The release notes contains the following remark:

We provide a fix for IDA version v6.4. IDA v6.5 build 140115 includes the fix, so there is no need in a separate fix for it.

The entries 8836, 8837, 8838 and 9525 are related to this item.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.4

VulDB Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Temp Score: 5.4
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Remote Code Execution
CWE: Unknown
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: IDA 6.5

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01/05/2014 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Cumulative fix of potentially critical bugs found in IDA
Researcher: George Hotz
Status: Confirmed
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/14/2014 17:15
Changes: 06/14/2014 17:15 (51)
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