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Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting libplist Open this link in a new tab package, versions >=0.0.0

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • User Interaction

    Required

  • Availability

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-COCOAPODS-LIBPLIST-472401

  • published

    8 Oct 2019

  • disclosed

    15 Mar 2017

  • credit

    zhunki

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Introduced: 15 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6439 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-787 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 Denial of Service (DoS). Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_string_node function in bplist.c in libimobiledevice allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted plist file.

Details