CVE-2015-5900

Severity

71%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

115%

The protected range register in the EFI component in Apple OS X before 10.11 has an incorrect value, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (boot failure) via a crafted app that writes to an unintended address.

The protected range register in the EFI component in Apple OS X before 10.11 has an incorrect value, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (boot failure) via a crafted app that writes to an unintended address.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-10-09 05:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-08 03:11:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3

Vendor Advisory

1033703

https://support.apple.com/HT205267

Vendor Advisory

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