CVE-2016-7661 in macOS

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Power Management" component. It allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to Mach port name references.

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Reservation

09/09/2016

Disclosure

02/20/2017

Status

Confirmed

Entries

VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:

ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
94409	Apple macOS Power Management access control	264	Proof-of-Concept	Official fix	CVE-2016-7661
94267	Apple tvOS Power Management access control	264	Proof-of-Concept	Official fix	CVE-2016-7661
94193	Apple iOS Power Management access control	264	Proof-of-Concept	Official fix	CVE-2016-7661

Sources

• MITRE
• NVD
• CVE Details