Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 2 public exploits for CVE-2016-4625. PoCs published by Google Security Research.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability in IOSurfaceRootUserClient on macOS, allowing kernel memory corruption. It involves creating a dangling pointer by freeing a task struct and then manipulating it via the create_surface_fast_path method.
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in IOSurface in Apple OS X before 10.11.6 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Exploits (2)
This exploit leverages a use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability in IOSurfaceRootUserClient on macOS, allowing kernel memory corruption. It involves creating a dangling pointer by freeing a task struct and then manipulating it via the create_surface_fast_path method.
This is a detailed writeup explaining a race condition vulnerability in macOS (CVE-2016-4625) where task struct pointers can be exploited to gain elevated privileges. The document describes the underlying issue with task struct pointers and their euid changes during suid-root binary execution.
References (6)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H