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OS X update for Kernel (CVE-2022-26765)

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OS X update for Kernel (CVE-2022-26765)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/26/2022
Created
06/02/2022
Added
06/01/2022
Modified
06/10/2022

Description

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in watchOS 8.6, tvOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5. A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-12_4

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