CVE-2024-27878
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-29 22:16
Modified
2024-08-09 03:55
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.6. An app with root privileges may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
References
product-security@apple.comhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18Mailing List
product-security@apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214119Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214119Vendor Advisory
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