CVE-2015-3693

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct row-hammer attacks, and consequently gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption), by triggering certain patterns of access to memory locations.

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct row-hammer attacks, and consequently gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption), by triggering certain patterns of access to memory locations.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-07-03 01:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-06 03:01:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html

APPLE-SA-2015-06-30-2

Patch, Vendor Advisory

APPLE-SA-2015-06-30-3

Vendor Advisory

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204934

Vendor Advisory

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204942

Vendor Advisory

75495

1032444

1032755

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