CVE-2014-8611
N/A
Published: September 18, 2015 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsmacOSiPhone OSFreeBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
Description
The __sflush function in fflush.c in stdio in libc in FreeBSD 10.1 and the kernel in Apple iOS before 9 mishandles failures of the write system call, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a crafted application.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (6)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=275665Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
Source: [email protected]
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:27.stdio.ascQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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