Apple tvOS up to 12.2.1 CoreAudio out-of-bounds

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple tvOS up to 12.2.1. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component CoreAudio. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-8585. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple tvOS up to 12.2.1 (Digital Media Player) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component CoreAudio. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 12.3, macOS Mojave 10.14.5, tvOS 12.3, watchOS 5.2.1. Processing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to arbitrary code execution.

The weakness was presented 05/13/2019 by riusksk with Zero Day Initiative as HT210120 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-8585 since 02/18/2019. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The advisory points out:

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 371785 (Apple macOS Mojave 10.14.5, Security Update 2019-003 High Sierra, Security Update 2019-003 Sierra Not Installed (HT210119)).

Upgrading to version 12.3 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

See VDB-134840, VDB-134841, VDB-134842 and VDB-134843 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Digital Media Player

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• Apple

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• tvOS

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• 12.2.0
• 12.2.1

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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