CVE-2017-6438

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6438
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6438.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6438
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-03-15T14:59:01.057Z
Modified
2026-01-30T19:21:25.836505Z
Severity
  • 7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parseunicodenode function in bplist.c in libimobiledevice libplist 1.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) and possibly code execution via a crafted plist file.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
27ed36c03297713d2cfa79431cdc8105602e80c2

Affected versions

1.*
1.10
1.11
1.12
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
Other
libplist_rc1
libplist_rc2
v0.*
v0.10
v0.11
v0.12
v0.13
v0.14
v0.15
v0.16
v0.8
v0.9
v1.*
v1.0
v1.1
v1.2
v1.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6438.json"