Apple tvOS up to 10.0 WebKit memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple tvOS up to 10.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component WebKit. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2016-7641. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple tvOS up to 10.0 (Digital Media Player). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component WebKit. 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.

The bug was discovered 12/14/2016. The weakness was disclosed 12/13/2016 by Boris Zbarsky with Zero Day Initiative as HT207425 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2016-7641 since 09/09/2016. 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 advisory points out:

Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved state management.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 95825 (Apple iTunes < 12.5.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (uncredentialed check)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Peer-To-Peer File Sharing and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 370265 (Apple iTunes Prior to 12.5.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (HT207427)).

Upgrading to version 10.1 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 (95825) and SecurityFocus (BID 94907†). The entries VDB-94143, VDB-94194, VDB-94199 and VDB-94200 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 95825
Nessus Name: Apple iTunes < 12.5.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (uncredentialed check)
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OpenVAS ID: 802225
OpenVAS Name: Apple iCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities Feb17 (Windows)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: tvOS 10.1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: HT207425
Researcher: Boris Zbarsky
Organization: Zero Day Initiative
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-7641 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-7641
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-94282
SecurityFocus: 94907 - Apple Safari/Cloud/iTunes/iOS/tvOS Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1037459

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Entryinfo

Created: 12/14/2016 12:20
Updated: 10/07/2022 08:39
Changes: 12/14/2016 12:20 (66), 07/06/2019 13:03 (18), 10/07/2022 08:39 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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