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CVE-2016-8661 Details

Description

Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1 suffer from a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be locally exploited which could lead to an escalation of privileges (EoP) and unauthorised ring0 access to the operating system. The buffer overflow is related to insufficient checking of parameters to the "OSMalloc" and "copyin" kernel API calls.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.4 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://speakerdeck.com/patrickwardle/defcon-2016-i-got-99-problems-but-little-snitch-aint-one CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94352 CVE
https://speakerdeck.com/patrickwardle/defcon-2016-i-got-99-problems-but-little-snitch-aint-one [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94352 [email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
obdev little snitch
3.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.0.3
3.0.4

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

29 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-8661
NVD Published Date:
Nov 15, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-8661 Details - Not Deferred