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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-LIBPLIST-470921
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed17 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5545  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens 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

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