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A vulnerability was found in Apple watchOS. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component libxml2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-8756. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple watchOS (Smartwatch Operating System) (affected version unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component libxml2. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 10/29/2019 by OSS-Fuzz as HT210722 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-8756. Local access is required to approach this attack. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

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

Similar entries are available at VDB-144590, VDB-144591, VDB-144592 and VDB-144593. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Smartwatch Operating System

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• Apple

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• watchOS

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• commercial

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