Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.4 IOHIDFamily out-of-bounds

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.4. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component IOHIDFamily. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2016-1823. The attack may be initiated remotely. In addition, an exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.4 (Operating System). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component IOHIDFamily. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 05/16/2016 by Ian Beer with Google Project Zero as HT206567 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-1823 since 01/13/2016. Attacking locally is a requirement. The requirement for exploitation is a single authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The advisory points out:

A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

A public exploit has been developed by Google Security Research and been published 4 weeks after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 95917 (macOS 10.12.x < 10.12.2 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 370262 (Apple macOS Sierra Security Update 10.12.2 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2016-12-13-1)).

Upgrading to version 10.11.5 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 Exploit-DB (39927), Tenable (95917) and SecurityFocus (BID 90698†). See VDB-87425, VDB-87434, VDB-87435 and VDB-87436 for similar entries. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Out-of-bounds
CWE: CWE-125 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Google Security Research
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Nessus ID: 95917
Nessus Name: macOS 10.12.x < 10.12.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 November-2016
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.11.5

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01/13/2016 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: HT206567
Researcher: Ian Beer
Organization: Google Project Zero
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-1823 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-1823
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-87463
SecurityFocus: 90698 - Apple tvOS/Mac OS X/iOS CVE-2016-1823 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1035890

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/18/2016 11:52
Updated: 09/21/2024 03:34
Changes: 05/18/2016 11:52 (60), 12/01/2018 23:41 (30), 08/19/2022 20:06 (5), 09/21/2024 03:34 (16)
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Cache ID: 216:D26:103

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