CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-4140

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 03, 2018 | Modified: May 03, 2018
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.3 is affected. The issue involves the Telephony component. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and reboot) via a Class 0 SMS message.

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
Iphone_os Apple * 11.3 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References