Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libplist  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBPLIST-615915
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed15 Mar 2017

Introduced: 15 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6438  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libplist package and not the libplist package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_unicode_node function in bplist.c in libimobiledevice libplist 1.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) and possibly code execution via a crafted plist file.