CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-9926

Use After Free

Published: Apr 02, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, tvOS 13.4.8, watchOS 6.2.8, iCloud for Windows 7.20, macOS Catalina 10.15.6, Security Update 2020-004 Mojave, Security Update 2020-004 High Sierra. Processing maliciously crafted XML may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Icloud Apple * 7.20 (excluding)
Ipados Apple * 13.6 (excluding)
Iphone_os Apple * 13.6 (excluding)
Mac_os_x Apple * 10.13.6 (excluding)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14 (including) 10.14.6 (excluding)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.15 (including) 10.15.6 (excluding)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6 (including) 10.13.6 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2018-002 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2018-002 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2018-003 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2018-003 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2019-001 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2019-001 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2019-002 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2019-002 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2019-003 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2019-003 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2019-004 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2019-004 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2019-005 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2019-005 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2019-006 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2019-006 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2019-007 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2019-007 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2020-001 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2020-001 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2020-002 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2020-002 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-security_update_2020-003 (including) 10.13.6-security_update_2020-003 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.13.6-supplemental_update (including) 10.13.6-supplemental_update (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6 (including) 10.14.6 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-security_update_2019-001 (including) 10.14.6-security_update_2019-001 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-security_update_2019-002 (including) 10.14.6-security_update_2019-002 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-security_update_2020-001 (including) 10.14.6-security_update_2020-001 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-security_update_2020-002 (including) 10.14.6-security_update_2020-002 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-security_update_2020-003 (including) 10.14.6-security_update_2020-003 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-security_update_2020-004 (including) 10.14.6-security_update_2020-004 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-security_update_2020-005 (including) 10.14.6-security_update_2020-005 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-security_update_2020-006 (including) 10.14.6-security_update_2020-006 (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-supplemental_update (including) 10.14.6-supplemental_update (including)
Mac_os_x Apple 10.14.6-supplemental_update_2 (including) 10.14.6-supplemental_update_2 (including)
Tvos Apple * 13.4.8 (excluding)
Watchos Apple * 6.2.8 (excluding)
Libxml2 Ubuntu trusty *
Libxml2 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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