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CVE-2014-8817

Published: Jan 30, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=80

x_refsource_MISC

http://support.apple.com/HT204244

x_refsource_CONFIRM

macosx-cve20148817-priv-esc(100496)

vdb-entry

x_refsource_XF

APPLE-SA-2015-01-27-4

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_APPLE

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