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A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS up to 9.3.1 (Smartphone Operating System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing 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.
The weakness was released 05/16/2016 by Kostya Serebryany (Basti) with Nanyang Technological University as HT206568 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-1827 since 01/13/2016. Local access is required to approach this attack. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The advisory points out:
Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
A public exploit has been developed by Brandon Azad and been published 9 months 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 $25k-$100k. 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 9.3.2 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 (44238).
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Brandon Azad
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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: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 November-2016
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Upgrade: iOS 9.3.2
Timeline
01/13/2016 🔍05/16/2016 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT206568
Researcher: Kostya Serebryany (Basti)
Organization: Nanyang Technological University
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-1827 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1035890
SecurityFocus: 90691 - Apple Mac OS X/watchOS/iOS/tvOS Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150917
Entry
Created: 05/18/2016 12:18Updated: 08/21/2022 09:11
Changes: 05/18/2016 12:18 (73), 12/01/2018 23:51 (19), 08/21/2022 09:11 (5)
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