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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.2 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Kernel. 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. CVE summarizes:
The kernel in Apple iOS before 9.2.1, OS X before 10.11.3, and tvOS before 9.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.
The weakness was released 01/19/2016 by Ian Beer with Google Project Zero as HT205731 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-1721 since 01/13/2016. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The advisory points out:
A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
A public exploit has been developed by Google Security Research and been published 2 weeks after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 88047 (Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context c. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 124584 (Apple Mac OS X v10.11.3 and Security Update 2016-001 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2016-01-19-2)).
Upgrading to version 10.11.3 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (88047) and Exploit-DB (39358). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 79234, 80331, 80332 and 80333.
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Google Security Research
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Nessus ID: 88047
Nessus Name: Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 February-2016
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.11.3
Timeline
01/13/2016 🔍01/19/2016 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT205731
Researcher: Ian Beer
Organization: Google Project Zero
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-1721 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1034736
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entry
Created: 01/21/2016 09:21Updated: 07/03/2022 17:46
Changes: 01/21/2016 09:21 (62), 06/25/2018 09:15 (26), 07/03/2022 17:46 (3)
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