CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-7609

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 20, 2017 | Modified: Jul 27, 2017
CVSS 3.x
6.2
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the AppleGraphicsPowerManagement component. It allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mac_os_x Apple * 10.12.1

Potential Mitigations

References