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Apple iOS Vulnerability: CVE-2015-6989

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Apple iOS Vulnerability: CVE-2015-6989

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/23/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/29/2015
Modified
10/29/2015

Description

Grand Central Dispatch in Apple iOS before 9.1, OS X before 10.11.1, and watchOS before 2.0.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted package that is mishandled during dispatch calls.

Solution(s)

  • apple-ios-upgrade-latest

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