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Summary
A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Apple macOS up to 10.12.5. This affects an unknown part of the component afclip. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2017-7016. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Apple macOS up to 10.12.5 (Operating System). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component afclip. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The bug was discovered 07/19/2017. The weakness was disclosed 07/19/2017 by Lufeng Li (riusksk) with Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab as HT207922 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-7016 since 03/17/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The advisory points out:
A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 101957 (macOS and Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2017-003)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 370475 (Apple macOS Sierra Security Update 10.12.6, El Capitan 2017-003 and Yosemite 2017-003 Not Installed (2017-003)).
Upgrading to version 10.12.6 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (101957) and SecurityFocus (BID 99882†). The entries VDB-97206, VDB-101947, VDB-104147 and VDB-104101 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.
Product
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Website
- Vendor: https://www.apple.com/
CPE 2.3
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 101957
Nessus Name: macOS and Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2017-003)
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OpenVAS ID: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-HT207922
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: macOS 10.12.6
Timeline
03/17/2017 🔍07/19/2017 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT207922
Researcher: Lufeng Li (riusksk)
Organization: Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-7016 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-7016
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-104227
SecurityFocus: 99882 - Apple macOS APPLE-SA-2017-07-19-2 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1038951
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20180712
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Entry
Created: 07/20/2017 15:33Updated: 01/05/2021 10:48
Changes: 07/20/2017 15:33 (78), 10/30/2019 13:09 (8), 01/05/2021 10:48 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:C11:103
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