Resource Management Errors Affecting libplist Open this link in a new tab package, versions >=0.0.0
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-COCOAPODS-LIBPLIST-471330
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published
2 Oct 2019
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disclosed
24 Feb 2017
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 24 Feb 2017
CVE-2017-6440 Open this link in a new tabHow 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 Resource Management Errors. The vulnerability exists because the parse_data_node
function in bplist.c
does not handle memory allocation properly, allowing a DoS attack using a plif
file locally.