Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.4 IOAudioFamily null pointer dereference
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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.4 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component IOAudioFamily. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
IOAudioFamily in Apple OS X before 10.11.5 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted app.
The weakness was released 05/16/2016 by Ian Beer (lokihardt) with Google Project Zero as HT206567 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-1821 since 01/13/2016. An attack has to be approached locally. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The advisory points out:
A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.
A public exploit has been developed by Google Security Research and been published 4 weeks after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 91228 (Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.5 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.
Upgrading to version 10.11.5 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 (91228) and Exploit-DB (39926). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 87425, 87434, 87435 and 87436.
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Class: Null pointer dereferenceCWE: CWE-476 / CWE-404
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Google Security Research
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Nessus ID: 91228
Nessus Name: Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 881901
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 November-2016
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.11.5
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Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT206567
Researcher: Ian Beer (lokihardt)
Organization: Google Project Zero
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-1821 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1035895
SecurityFocus: 90696 - Apple Mac OS X APPLE-SA-2016-05-16-4 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 05/18/2016 11:52Updated: 08/19/2022 19:51
Changes: 05/18/2016 11:52 (80), 12/01/2018 23:41 (12), 08/19/2022 19:51 (4)
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