CVE-2014-8817

Published 30 Jan 2015 · Updated 06 Aug 2024

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 2.9%

coresymbolicationd in CoreSymbolication in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that expected data types are present in XPC messages, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app, as demonstrated by lack of verification of xpc_dictionary_get_value API return values during handling of a (1) match_mmap_archives, (2) delete_mmap_archives, (3) write_mmap_archive, or (4) read_mmap_archive command.

Affected products

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References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=80 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100496 http://support.apple.com/HT204244 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031650