Double Free Affecting libimobiledevice/libplist package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBIMOBILEDEVICELIBPLIST-2366555
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

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 libimobiledevice/libplist.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free. 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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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