Memory corruption in macOS - CVE-2017-13831
Published: November 1, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9076
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13831
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to a memory management error in the ImageIO component. A remote attacker can trick the victim into loading a specially crafted image, trigger memory corruption and cause the application to crash.
Affected software
macOS
How to mitigate CVE-2017-13831
Update to version 10.13.1.