CVE-2014-8823

Severity

47%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

115%

The IOUSBControllerUserClient::ReadRegister function in the IOUSB controller in IOUSBFamily in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 allows local users to read data from arbitrary kernel-memory locations by leveraging root access and providing a crafted first argument.

The IOUSBControllerUserClient::ReadRegister function in the IOUSB controller in IOUSBFamily in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 allows local users to read data from arbitrary kernel-memory locations by leveraging root access and providing a crafted first argument.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2015-01-30 11:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-08 01:29:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=21

Exploit, Issue Tracking

APPLE-SA-2015-01-27-4

Mailing List, Vendor Advisory

http://support.apple.com/HT204244

Vendor Advisory

1031650

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

macosx-cve20148823-priv-esv(100514)

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