Double Free Affecting libplist package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.77% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBPLIST-296136
  • published3 Mar 2017
  • disclosed3 Mar 2017

Introduced: 3 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-5836  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 libplist.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libplist package and not the libplist package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The plist_free_data function in plist.c in libplist allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving an integer node that is treated as a PLIST_KEY and then triggers an invalid free.