Advisory Details

October 21st, 2015

Apple Safari TTF Out-Of-Bounds Access Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2015-6978
CVSS SCORE	6.8, AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Apple
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Safari
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Safari. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of fonts embedded in PDFs. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the current process.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205375
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-09-03 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2015-10-21 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Jaanus Kp Clarified Security

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