CVE-2017-6979 in macOS

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.5 is affected. tvOS before 10.2.1 is affected. watchOS before 3.2.2 is affected. The issue involves the "IOSurface" component. A race condition allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app.

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• Reservation: 03/17/2017
• Disclosure: 05/22/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 4
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-362 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 7.9
• EPSS: 0.02343
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6979
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6979
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6979/