Description
IOKit SCSI in Apple iOS before 9.2, OS X before 10.11.2, tvOS before 9.1, and watchOS before 2.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an app that provides an unspecified userclient type.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Exploit-DB 1
- Apple Mac OSX - IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00 Userclient Type 12 Kernel NULL Dereference EDB-39376 · dos · Jan 28, 2016 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- https://support.apple.com/HT205635
- https://support.apple.com/HT205637
- 1034344 vdb-entry
- APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-4 vendor-advisory
- APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-3 vendor-advisory
- 78719 vdb-entry
- APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-1 vendor-advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205641
- https://support.apple.com/HT205640
- APPLE-SA-2015-12-08-2 vendor-advisory