APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-5Vendor advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html CVE-2016-1741
CRITICAL
Apple Mac OSX Kernel - Unchecked Array Index Used to Read Object Pointer Then Call Virtual Method in Nvidia Geforce Driver
Record summary
CVE-2016-1741 has a selected CVSS score of 9.8 (critical); EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
The NVIDIA driver in the Graphics Drivers subsystem in Apple OS X before 10.11.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted app.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBApple Mac OSX Kernel - Unchecked Array Index Used to Read Object Pointer Then Call Virtual Method in Nvidia Geforce DriverExploitDB exploitby Google Security ResearchNot analyzed1 file
References
51035363vdb entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035363 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1741 support.apple.comConfirmation
https://support.apple.com/HT206167 39615exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39615