CVE-2015-5761 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Apple Iphone OS

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer8 documents3 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.5%
top 14.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Apple Iphone OSApple ItunesApple MAC OS X+3 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 17
Latest updateMay 17

Description

CoreText in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 and OS X before 10.10.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted font file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5755.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages7 packages

▶NVDapple/itunes12.2
▶NVDapple/mac_os_x10.10.4
▶Appleapple/ios8.4.1

Patches

Patch: lists.apple.com ↗Patch: lists.apple.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-cw72-8fv8-g25v: CoreText in Apple iOS before 8↗2022-05-17
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GHSA
GHSA-p5g7-mvx2-57vw: CoreText in Apple iOS before 8↗2022-05-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Apple
CVE-2015-5761: iOS 8.4.1↗
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Apple
CVE-2015-5761: Apple TV 7.2.1↗
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Apple
CVE-2015-5761: iTunes 12.3↗
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Apple
CVE-2015-5761: OS X Yosemite v10.10.5 and Security Update 2015-006↗
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