Denial of service vulnerability in IOHIDFamily in Apple via an application that provides crafted key-mapping properties (Mac OS X)ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:21766 | Date: (C)2014-11-27 (M)2023-12-07 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: macos |
The host is installed with Apple Mac OS X or Server 10.8.5, 10.9 through 10.9.5 and is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to properly handle an application that provides crafted key-mapping properties. Successful exploitation allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).
Platform: |
Apple Mac OS X 10.8 |
Apple Mac OS X 10.9 |
Apple Mac OS X Server 10.8 |
Apple Mac OS X Server 10.9 |