CVE-2016-1861

high

Description

The NVIDIA Graphics Drivers subsystem in Apple OS X before 10.11.5 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted app, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1846.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39930/

https://support.apple.com/HT206567

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=724

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/May/msg00004.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-06-19

Updated: 2016-11-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High