Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-1315 - USE of Externally-Controlled Format String vulnerability in Apple mac OS X 10.9/10.9.1/10.9.2
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Format string vulnerability in CoreServicesUIAgent in Apple OS X 10.9.x through 10.9.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in a URL.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Format String Injection An attacker includes formatting characters in a string input field on the target application. Most applications assume that users will provide static text and may respond unpredictably to the presence of formatting character. For example, in certain functions of the C programming languages such as printf, the formatting character %s will print the contents of a memory location expecting this location to identify a string and the formatting character %n prints the number of DWORD written in the memory. An attacker can use this to read or write to memory locations or files, or simply to manipulate the value of the resulting text in unexpected ways. Reading or writing memory may result in program crashes and writing memory could result in the execution of arbitrary code if the attacker can write to the program stack.
- String Format Overflow in syslog() This attack targets the format string vulnerabilities in the syslog() function. An attacker would typically inject malicious input in the format string parameter of the syslog function. This is a common problem, and many public vulnerabilities and associated exploits have been posted.
Nessus
| NASL family | MacOS X Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | MACOSX_SECUPD2014-002.NASL |
| description | The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, or 10.9 that does not have Security Update 2014-002 applied. This update contains several security-related fixes for the following components : - CFNetwork HTTPProtocl - CoreServicesUIAgent - FontParser - Heimdal Kerberos - ImageIO - Intel Graphics Driver - IOKit Kernel - Kernel - Power Management - Ruby - Security - Secure Transport - Window Server Note that successful exploitation of the most serious issues could result in arbitrary code execution. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 73648 |
| published | 2014-04-22 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/73648 |
| title | Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2014-002) |
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