Apple TV < 9.2.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 91311

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Synopsis

The remote device is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

According to its banner, the version of the remote Apple TV device is prior to 9.2.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the following components :

 - CFNetwork Proxies
 - CommonCrypto
 - CoreCapture
 - Disk Images
 - ImageIO
 - IOAcceleratorFamily
 - IOHIDFamily
 - Kernel
 - libc
 - libxml2
 - libxslt
 - OpenGL
 - WebKit
 - WebKit Canvas

Note that only 4th generation models are affected by the vulnerabilities.

Solution

Upgrade to Apple TV version 9.2.1 or later. Note that this update is only available for 4th generation models.

See Also

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206564

http://www.nessus.org/u?618f77f3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91311

File Name: appletv_9_2_1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 5/24/2016

Updated: 11/14/2019

Dependencies: appletv_version.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4650

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apple:apple_tv

Required KB Items: AppleTV/Version, AppleTV/Model, AppleTV/URL, AppleTV/Port

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1801, CVE-2016-1802, CVE-2016-1803, CVE-2016-1807, CVE-2016-1808, CVE-2016-1811, CVE-2016-1813, CVE-2016-1814, CVE-2016-1817, CVE-2016-1818, CVE-2016-1819, CVE-2016-1823, CVE-2016-1824, CVE-2016-1827, CVE-2016-1828, CVE-2016-1829, CVE-2016-1830, CVE-2016-1832, CVE-2016-1833, CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837, CVE-2016-1838, CVE-2016-1839, CVE-2016-1840, CVE-2016-1841, CVE-2016-1847, CVE-2016-1854, CVE-2016-1855, CVE-2016-1856, CVE-2016-1857, CVE-2016-1858, CVE-2016-1859, CVE-2016-4650

APPLE-SA: APPLE-SA-2016-05-16-1