Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-4759 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Apple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
WebKit in Apple iOS before 10, tvOS before 10, iTunes before 12.5.1 on Windows, and Safari before 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4765, CVE-2016-4766, CVE-2016-4767, and CVE-2016-4768.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
NASL family Peer-To-Peer File Sharing NASL id ITUNES_12_5_1_BANNER.NASL description The version of Apple iTunes running on the remote Windows host is prior to 12.5.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to improper handling of error prototypes. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to visit a maliciously crafted website, to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4728) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in WebKit due to a permission issue caused by improper handling of the location variable. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to visit a maliciously crafted website, to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2016-4758) - Multiple memory corruption errors exist in WebKit due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these issues, by convincing a user to visit a maliciously crafted website, to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4759, CVE-2016-4762, CVE-2016-4764, CVE-2016-4765, CVE-2016-4766, CVE-2016-4767, CVE-2016-4768, CVE-2016-4769) - A rebinding flaw exists in WebKit due to a failure to restrict HTTP/0.9 responses to default ports and cancel resource loads if a document is loaded with a different HTTP protocol version. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to visit a maliciously crafted website, to access non-HTTP services. (CVE-2016-4760) - A security bypass vulnerability exists in WebKit in the WKWebView component due to a failure to properly verify X.509 certificates from HTTPS servers. A man-in-the-middle attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted certificate, to spoof servers and disclose or manipulate network traffic. (CVE-2016-4763) Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 94971 published 2016-11-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94971 title Apple iTunes < 12.5.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (uncredentialed Check) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3166-1.NASL description A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96406 published 2017-01-11 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96406 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : webkit2gtk vulnerabilities (USN-3166-1) NASL family Windows NASL id ITUNES_12_5_1.NASL description The version of Apple iTunes installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 12.5.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to improper handling of error prototypes. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to visit a maliciously crafted website, to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4728) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in WebKit due to a permission issue caused by improper handling of the location variable. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to visit a maliciously crafted website, to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2016-4758) - Multiple memory corruption errors exist in WebKit due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these issues, by convincing a user to visit a maliciously crafted website, to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4759, CVE-2016-4762, CVE-2016-4764, CVE-2016-4765, CVE-2016-4766, CVE-2016-4767, CVE-2016-4768, CVE-2016-4769) - A rebinding flaw exists in WebKit due to a failure to restrict HTTP/0.9 responses to default ports and cancel resource loads if a document is loaded with a different HTTP protocol version. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to visit a maliciously crafted website, to access non-HTTP services. (CVE-2016-4760) - A security bypass vulnerability exists in WebKit in the WKWebView component due to a failure to properly verify X.509 certificates from HTTPS servers. A man-in-the-middle attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted certificate, to spoof servers and disclose or manipulate network traffic. (CVE-2016-4763) Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 94914 published 2016-11-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94914 title Apple iTunes < 12.5.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (credentialed check) NASL family Misc. NASL id APPLETV_10.NASL description According to its banner, the version of Apple TV on the remote device is prior to 10. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the following components : - Audio - CFNetwork - CoreCrypto - FontParser - IOAcceleratorFamily - Kernel - libxml2 - libxslt - Security - WebKit Note that only 4th generation models are affected by these vulnerabilities. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93776 published 2016-09-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93776 title Apple TV < 10 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_SAFARI10_0.NASL description The version of Apple Safari installed on the remote Mac OS X or macOS host is prior to 10.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple memory corruption issues exist in WebKit that allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition or execute arbitrary code via specially a crafted website. (CVE-2016-4611, CVE-2016-4729, CVE-2016-4730, CVE-2016-4731, CVE-2016-4734, CVE-2016-4735, CVE-2016-4737, CVE-2016-4759, CVE-2016-4762, CVE-2016-4766, CVE-2016-4767, CVE-2016-4768, CVE-2016-4769) - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Reader feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input before returning it to users. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to follow a specially crafted link, to execute arbitrary script code in a user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93721 published 2016-09-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93721 title Mac OS X : Apple Safari < 10.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00007.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00007.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00011.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00011.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00012.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00012.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93067
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93067
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036854
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036854
- https://support.apple.com/HT207142
- https://support.apple.com/HT207142
- https://support.apple.com/HT207143
- https://support.apple.com/HT207143
- https://support.apple.com/HT207157
- https://support.apple.com/HT207157
- https://support.apple.com/HT207158
- https://support.apple.com/HT207158