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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple macOS up to 10.11 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Kernel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
The kernel in Apple iOS before 10, OS X before 10.12, tvOS before 10, and watchOS before 3 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted app.
The weakness was published 09/20/2016 by Lufeng Li with Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team as HT207170 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-4777 since 05/11/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project. The advisory points out:
An untrusted pointer dereference was addressed by removing the affected code.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 93776 (Apple TV < 10 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc. and running in the context r.
Upgrading to version 10.12 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 (93776). Similar entries are available at 91603, 91618, 91993 and 91997.
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CPE 2.3
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.6
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Class: Access controlCWE: CWE-264
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Local: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 93776
Nessus Name: Apple TV < 10 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 September-2016
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Countermeasures
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Upgrade: macOS 10.12
Timeline
05/11/2016 🔍09/20/2016 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT207170
Researcher: Lufeng Li
Organization: Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-4777 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1036858
SecurityFocus: 93054 - Apple iOS/tvOS/MacOS/watchOS Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20180712
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Entry
Created: 09/26/2016 11:34Updated: 09/21/2022 07:29
Changes: 09/26/2016 11:34 (60), 04/25/2019 20:43 (24), 09/21/2022 07:29 (4)
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