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OS X update for sips (CVE-2019-8701)

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OS X update for sips (CVE-2019-8701)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/08/2019
Created
10/09/2019
Added
10/08/2019
Modified
12/06/2022

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_15

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