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A vulnerability was found in Apple macOS 10.12.0 (Operating System). It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown processing of the component AppleGraphicsControl. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The weakness was disclosed 10/24/2016 by Juwei Lin (Shrek_wzw) with Apple as HT207275 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-4662 since 05/11/2016. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The advisory points out:
A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved lock state checking.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 94253 (macOS 10.12.x < 10.12.1 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 370175 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update Sierra 10.12.1, El Capitan 2016-002 and Yosemite 2016-006 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2016-10-24-2)).
Upgrading to version 10.12.1 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 (94253). The entries 93042, 93046, 93047 and 93041 are pretty similar.
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 94253
Nessus Name: macOS 10.12.x < 10.12.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-04 February-2017
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Upgrade: macOS 10.12.1
Timeline
05/11/2016 🔍10/24/2016 🔍
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10/25/2016 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT207275
Researcher: Juwei Lin (Shrek_wzw)
Organization: Apple
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-4662 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1037086
SecurityFocus: 93852 - Apple macOS Prior to 10.12.1 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20180712
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Entry
Created: 10/25/2016 09:05Updated: 09/28/2022 10:47
Changes: 10/25/2016 09:05 (72), 05/17/2019 16:21 (14), 09/28/2022 10:47 (4)
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