Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-7617 - Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast vulnerability in Apple mac OS X
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Bluetooth" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (type confusion) via a crafted app.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Exploit-Db
description Apple macOS Sierra 10.12.1 - 'physmem' Local Privilege Escalation. CVE-2016-1825,CVE-2016-7617. Local exploit for macOS platform id EDB-ID:44237 last seen 2018-03-03 modified 2017-01-16 published 2017-01-16 reporter Exploit-DB source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/44237/ title Apple macOS Sierra 10.12.1 - 'physmem' Local Privilege Escalation description MacOS Kernel 10.12.1 - Writable Privileged IOKit Registry Properties Code Execution. CVE-2016-7617. Dos exploit for macOS platform. Tags: Denial of Service (... file exploits/macos/dos/40952.c id EDB-ID:40952 last seen 2016-12-22 modified 2016-12-22 platform macos port published 2016-12-22 reporter Exploit-DB source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/40952/ title MacOS Kernel 10.12.1 - Writable Privileged IOKit Registry Properties Code Execution type dos
Nessus
NASL family | MacOS X Local Security Checks |
NASL id | MACOS_10_12_2.NASL |
description | The remote host is running a version of macOS that is 10.12.x prior to 10.12.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the following components : - apache_mod_php - AppleGraphicsPowerManagement - Assets - Audio - Bluetooth - CoreCapture - CoreFoundation - CoreGraphics - CoreMedia External Displays - CoreMedia Playback - CoreStorage - CoreText - curl - Directory Services - Disk Images - FontParser - Foundation - Grapher - ICU - ImageIO - Intel Graphics Driver - IOFireWireFamily - IOAcceleratorFamily - IOHIDFamily - IOKit - IOSurface - Kernel - kext tools - libarchive - LibreSSL - OpenLDAP - OpenPAM - OpenSSL - Power Management - Security - syslog - WiFi - xar Note that successful exploitation of the most serious issues can result in arbitrary code execution. Furthermore, CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-7596, and CVE-2016-7604 also affect Mac OS X versions 10.10.5 and 10.11.6. However, this plugin does not check those versions. |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 95917 |
published | 2016-12-16 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95917 |
title | macOS 10.12.x < 10.12.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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