Apple watchOS up to 3.1 ImageIO memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple watchOS up to 3.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component ImageIO. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2017-2467. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple watchOS up to 3.1 (Smartwatch Operating System). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component ImageIO. 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 03/27/2017. The weakness was disclosed 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. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-2467 since 12/01/2016. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. 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 memory corruption 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 pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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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-2017-2467 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-2467
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-98827
SecurityFocus: 97137 - Apple iOS/tvOS/macOS/watchOS Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: - CVE-2017-2467 - Apple - Multiple Products - Memory Corruption Issue
SecurityTracker: 1038138

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Created: 03/28/2017 11:59
Updated: 10/29/2024 04:10
Changes: 03/28/2017 11:59 (66), 08/22/2020 11:30 (17), 11/21/2022 13:52 (4), 10/29/2024 04:10 (16)
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Cache ID: 216:D01:103

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