Apple tvOS up to 18.4 App denial of service

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Apple tvOS. Affected is an unknown function of the component App. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-43355. The attack must be initiated from a local position. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Apple tvOS. This affects an unknown code of the component App. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in tvOS 26, macOS Sonoma 14.8, macOS Sequoia 15.7, iOS 18.7 and iPadOS 18.7, visionOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-43355 since 04/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 26.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Digital Media Player

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• tvOS

Version

• 9.2.2
• 10
• 10.0
• 10.0.1
• 10.1
• 10.1.1
• 10.2
• 10.2.1
• 10.2.2
• 10.15.0
• 11.0
• 11.1
• 11.2
• 11.2.1
• 11.2.5
• 11.2.6
• 11.3
• 11.4
• 11.4.1
• 12.0
• 12.1
• 12.1.1
• 12.1.2
• 12.2
• 12.3
• 12.4
• 12.7
• 13.0
• 13.2
• 13.3.1
• 13.4
• 13.4.5
• 13.4.6
• 13.4.8
• 13.6
• 13.7
• 14.0
• 14.2
• 14.3
• 14.4
• 14.5
• 14.6
• 14.7
• 15
• 15.0
• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.3
• 15.4
• 15.5
• 15.6
• 15.7.1
• 16.1
• 16.2
• 16.3
• 16.4
• 16.5
• 16.6
• 16.7
• 17.4
• 17.5
• 18
• 18.1
• 18.2
• 18.4

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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