APPLE-SA-2015-01-27-4Vendor advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html CVE-2014-8835
Apple Mac OSX 10.9.x - sysmond XPC Privilege Escalation
Record summary
CVE-2014-8835 has a selected CVSS score of 9.3; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
The xpc_data_get_bytes function in libxpc in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not verify that a dictionary's Attributes key has the xpc_data data type, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted dictionary to sysmond, related to an "XPC type confusion" issue.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBApple Mac OSX 10.9.x - sysmond XPC Privilege EscalationExploitDB exploitby Google Security ResearchNot analyzed1 file
References
9packetstormsecurity.com
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135701/OS-X-Sysmond-XPC-Type-Confusion-Privilege-Escalation.html support.apple.comConfirmation
http://support.apple.com/HT204244 35742exploit
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35742 71992vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71992 1031650vdb entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031650 code.google.com
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=121 macosx-cve20148835-priv-esc(100530)vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100530 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8835