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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libplist package, versions >=0.0.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-COCOAPODS-LIBPLIST-470921
  • published 2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 17 Jan 2017
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 17 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5545 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libplist.

Overview

libplist is a library to handle Apple Property List format in binary or XML

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The attacks exist when a user passes an Apple Property List data that is that is shorter than 8 bytes to the main function in plistutil.c.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

9.1 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High