cve-2014-8611
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-09-18 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:26
Severity ?
Summary
The __sflush function in fflush.c in stdio in libc in FreeBSD 10.1 and the kernel in Apple iOS before 9 mishandles failures of the write system call, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a crafted application.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.apple.com/HT205212Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.apple.com/HT205267Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=275665
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:27.stdio.ascVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.apple.com/HT205212Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.apple.com/HT205267Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=275665
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:27.stdio.ascVendor Advisory
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