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A vulnerability was found in Apple tvOS up to 9.2.1 (Digital Media Player) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component IOHIDFamily. 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. CVE summarizes:
IOHIDFamily in Apple iOS before 9.3.3, OS X before 10.11.6, tvOS before 9.2.2, and watchOS before 2.2.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.
The weakness was released 07/18/2016 by Stefan Esser with Cisco Talos as HT206905 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-4626 since 05/11/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The advisory points out:
A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved input validation.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 92496 (Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.6 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 370095 (Apple Mac OS X v10.11.6 and Security Update 2016-004 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-1)).
Upgrading to version 9.2.2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (92496). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 88079, 89684, 89686 and 89687.
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Class: Null pointer dereferenceCWE: CWE-476 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 92496
Nessus Name: Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 63631
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities December-2016
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Upgrade: tvOS 9.2.2
Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT206905
Researcher: Stefan Esser
Organization: Cisco Talos
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-4626 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1036344
SecurityFocus: 91834 - Apple Mac OS X/watchOS/iOS/tvOS Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
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Entry
Created: 07/19/2016 19:45Updated: 09/06/2022 14:15
Changes: 07/19/2016 19:45 (71), 03/03/2019 15:51 (14), 09/06/2022 14:15 (4)
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