CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-8835

Published: Jan 30, 2015 | Modified: Sep 08, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The xpc_data_get_bytes function in libxpc in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that a dictionarys Attributes key has the xpc_data data type, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted dictionary to sysmond, related to an XPC type confusion issue.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mac_os_x Apple 10.10.0 (including) 10.10.0 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.10.1 (including) 10.10.1 (including)

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