Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.2 IOAcceleratorFamily memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.2. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component IOAcceleratorFamily. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2016-1718. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.2 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component IOAcceleratorFamily. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The IOAcceleratorFamily2 interface in IOAcceleratorFamily in Apple OS X before 10.11.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was presented 01/19/2016 by Juwei Lin with Trend Micro as HT205731 as confirmed advisory (Website) via ZDI (Zero Day Initiative). The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-1718 since 01/13/2016. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The advisory points out:

A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 88047 (Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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 c. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 124584 (Apple Mac OS X v10.11.3 and Security Update 2016-001 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2016-01-19-2)).

Upgrading to version 10.11.3 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 (88047), SecurityFocus (BID 81274†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-55996†). See VDB-79234, VDB-80331, VDB-80332 and VDB-80334 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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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 88047
Nessus Name: Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 February-2016
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.11.3

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: HT205731
Researcher: Juwei Lin
Organization: Trend Micro
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-1718 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-1718
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-80333
SecurityFocus: 81274 - Apple Mac OS X APPLE-SA-2016-01-19-2 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1034736
Vulnerability Center: 55996 - Apple Mac OS X 10.11-10.11.2 Local Code Execution in IOAcceleratorFamily, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Created: 01/21/2016 09:21
Updated: 07/03/2022 17:24
Changes: 01/21/2016 09:21 (84), 07/02/2018 09:17 (8), 07/03/2022 17:24 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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