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OS X update for libc (CVE-2017-1000373)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 19, 2017
Added
Sep 26, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The OpenBSD qsort() function is recursive, and not randomized, an attacker can construct a pathological input array of N elements that causes qsort() to deterministically recurse N/4 times. This allows attackers to consume arbitrary amounts of stack memory and manipulate stack memory to assist in arbitrary code execution attacks. This affects OpenBSD 6.1 and possibly earlier versions.

Solution

apple-osx-upgrade-10_13
Title
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