CVE-2014-8146

Apple Itunes < 12.1.3 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

The resolveImplicitLevels function in common/ubidi.c in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm implementation in ICU4C in International Components for Unicode (ICU) before 55.1 does not properly track directionally isolated pieces of text, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted text.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP

localmultiple

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43887

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References (19)

[Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory] http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/changeset/37162

[Mailing List] http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00003.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html

[Mailing List] http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/05/6

[Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/14

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3323

[Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource] http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/602540

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

[Patch] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74457

[Exploit] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pedrib/PoC/master/generic/i-c-u-fail.txt

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-04

[Third Party Advisory] https://support.apple.com/HT205212

[Third Party Advisory] https://support.apple.com/HT205213

[Third Party Advisory] https://support.apple.com/HT205221

[Third Party Advisory] https://support.apple.com/HT205267

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Scores

EPSS 0.2581

EPSS Percentile 96.2%

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status draft

Affected Products (5)

apple/itunes < 12.1.3

apple/iphone_os < 8.2

apple/mac_os_x < 10.10.4

apple/watchos < 1.0.1

icu-project/international_components_for_unicode < 55.1

Timeline

Published May 25, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026