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A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS up to 8.4.1 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component IOKit. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2015-5845. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS up to 8.4.1 (Smartphone Operating System). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component IOKit. 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. CVE summarizes:

IOKit in the kernel in Apple iOS before 9 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted app, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5844 and CVE-2015-5846.

The weakness was published 09/16/2015 by Filippo Bigarella (beist) as HT205212 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2015-5845 since 08/06/2015. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/16/2022). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

Upgrading to version 9 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 76764†). Similar entries are available at VDB-9015, VDB-68413, VDB-77828 and VDB-77762. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Apple

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• iOS

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• 8.4.0
• 8.4.1

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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