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CVE-2014-8823

Published: Jan 30, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The IOUSBControllerUserClient::ReadRegister function in the IOUSB controller in IOUSBFamily in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 allows local users to read data from arbitrary kernel-memory locations by leveraging root access and providing a crafted first argument.

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

References

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=21

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vdb-entry

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macosx-cve20148823-priv-esv(100514)

vdb-entry

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http://support.apple.com/HT204244

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APPLE-SA-2015-01-27-4

vendor-advisory

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