Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libimobiledevice/libplist package, versions [,2.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.77% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBIMOBILEDEVICELIBPLIST-2366561
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5545  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libimobiledevice/libplist to version 2.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The main function in plistutil.c in libimobiledevice libplist through 1.12 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) via Apple Property List data that is too short.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1