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A vulnerability was found in Little Snitch up to 3.6.1. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Kernel API Call Handler. 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 summary by CVE is:
Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1 suffer from a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be locally exploited which could lead to an escalation of privileges (EoP) and unauthorised ring0 access to the operating system. The buffer overflow is related to insufficient checking of parameters to the "OSMalloc" and "copyin" kernel API calls.
The bug was discovered 11/15/2016. The weakness was disclosed 11/15/2016 by Patrick Wardle (Website). The advisory is shared at speakerdeck.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-8661 since 10/14/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
Product
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Version
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.4
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VulDB Temp Score: 8.4
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NVD Base Score: 8.4
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: Yes
Remote: No
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
10/14/2016 🔍11/15/2016 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: speakerdeck.comResearcher: Patrick Wardle
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2016-8661 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 94352 - Little Snitch CVE-2016-8661 Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Entry
Created: 11/16/2016 07:58Updated: 06/01/2019 11:09
Changes: 11/16/2016 07:58 (47), 06/01/2019 11:09 (14)
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