7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-1720

Published: 01/02/2016 Updated: 22/03/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 725
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

IOKit in Apple iOS prior to 9.2.1, OS X prior to 10.11.3, and tvOS prior to 9.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

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Exploits

/* Source: codegooglecom/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=597 It turns out that the spoofed no-more-senders notification bug when applied to iokit objects was actually just a more complicated way to hit ::clientClose in parallel We can in fact do this very simply by calling IOServiceClose on two threads :) Like the spoofed n ...