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A vulnerability was found in Apple tvOS up to 14.4 (Digital Media Player) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Kernel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The weakness was disclosed 04/26/2021 by Tielei Wang as HT212323 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-1816. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The advisory points out:
A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Upgrading to version 14.5 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. The advisory contains the following remark:
A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.5
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Exploiting
Class: Buffer overflowCWE: CWE-120 / CWE-119
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
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Upgrade: tvOS 14.5
Timeline
12/08/2020 🔍04/26/2021 🔍
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04/27/2021 🔍
05/01/2021 🔍
Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT212323
Researcher: Tielei Wang
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2021-1816 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 04/27/2021 10:52Updated: 05/01/2021 09:27
Changes: 04/27/2021 10:52 (13), 04/27/2021 10:53 (7), 04/27/2021 10:56 (26), 05/01/2021 09:27 (4)
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