CVE-2014-8817 in Apple Mac OS Xinfo

Summary

coresymbolicationd in CoreSymbolication in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that expected data types are present in XPC messages, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app, as demonstrated by lack of verification of xpc_dictionary_get_value API return values during handling of a (1) match_mmap_archives, (2) delete_mmap_archives, (3) write_mmap_archive, or (4) read_mmap_archive command.

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11/14/2014

Disclosure

01/30/2015

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ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
68877	Apple Mac OS X CoreSymbolication data processing	19	Unproven	Official fix	CVE-2014-8817

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