7.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2018-4230

Published: 08/06/2018 Updated: 13/07/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.6 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1
VMScore: 765
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

An issue exists in certain Apple products. macOS prior to 10.13.5 is affected. The issue involves the "NVIDIA Graphics Drivers" component. It allows malicious users to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app that triggers a SetAppSupportBits use-after-free because of a race condition.

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Exploits

/* nvDevice::SetAppSupportBits is external method 0x107 of the nvAccelerator IOService It calls task_deallocate without locking Two threads can race calling this external method to drop two task references when only one is held Note that the repro forks a child which give the nvAccelerator a different task otherwise the repro is more likely to ...

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