Security Advisory

CVE-2014-8835

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

The xpc_data_get_bytes function in libxpc in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that a dictionarys Attributes key has the xpc_data data type, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted dictionary to sysmond, related to an "XPC type confusion" issue.