Apple watchOS up to 3.1 CoreText resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple watchOS up to 3.1. It has been rated as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component CoreText. The manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-2461. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple watchOS up to 3.1 (Smartwatch Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component CoreText. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability.

The bug was discovered 03/27/2017. The weakness was shared 03/27/2017 by John Villamil with Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team as HT207602 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-2461 since 12/01/2016. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The advisory points out:

A resource exhaustion issue was addressed through improved input validation.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 99264 (Apple TV < 10.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc. and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 370348 (Apple Mac OS X Security Update Sierra 10.12.4, El Capitan 2017-001 and Yosemite 2017-001 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2017-03-27-3)).

Upgrading to version 3.2 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 (99264) and SecurityFocus (BID 97137†). The entries VDB-98613, VDB-98614, VDB-98618 and VDB-98619 are related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 99264
Nessus Name: Apple TV < 10.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities-HT207615
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: watchOS 3.2

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: HT207602
Researcher: John Villamil
Organization: Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-2461 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-2461
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-98819
SecurityFocus: 97137 - Apple iOS/tvOS/macOS/watchOS Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: - CVE-2017-2461 - Apple - Multiple Products - Denial of Service Issue
SecurityTracker: 1038138

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/28/2017 11:58
Updated: 10/27/2024 19:13
Changes: 03/28/2017 11:58 (75), 08/25/2020 14:54 (8), 11/21/2022 12:55 (4), 10/27/2024 19:13 (16)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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