Security Advisory

CVE-2014-8817

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-01-30 11:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 13:26:02

Assigner apple

State PUBLISHED

Description

coresymbolicationd in CoreSymbolication in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that expected data types are present in XPC messages, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app, as demonstrated by lack of verification of xpc_dictionary_get_value API return values during handling of a (1) match_mmap_archives, (2) delete_mmap_archives, (3) write_mmap_archive, or (4) read_mmap_archive command.

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