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CVE-2016-1741in critical feed1 exploit

The NVIDIA driver in the Graphics Drivers subsystem in Apple OS X before 10.11.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged…

Published 10 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
9.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
11.6%
percentile 96%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

The NVIDIA driver in the Graphics Drivers subsystem in Apple OS X before 10.11.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted app.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

11.58% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-39615 Apple Mac OSX Kernel - Unchecked Array Index Used to Read Object Pointer Then Call Virtual Method in Nvidia Geforce Driver · dos · 2016-03-23

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.09.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.010.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

  • lists.apple.com /archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, x_transferred
  • support.apple.com /HT206167 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/39615/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
  • securitytracker.com /id/1035363 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred

Sources

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