Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5879

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-09-18 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 07:06:34
Assigner apple
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

XNU in the kernel in Apple iOS before 9 does not properly validate the headers of TCP packets, which allows remote attackers to bypass the sequence-number protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (TCP connection disruption) via a crafted header.