CVE-2017-13849 in iOS

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.1 is affected. tvOS before 11.1 is affected. watchOS before 4.1 is affected. The issue involves the "CoreText" component. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted text file.

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• Reservation: 08/30/2017
• Disclosure: 11/12/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-109075
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-20 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 4.4
• EPSS: 0.05893
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13849
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13849
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-13849/