CVE-2018-4344 vulnerability in Apple Products
Published on April 3, 2019

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue affected versions prior to iOS 12, macOS Mojave 10.14, tvOS 12, watchOS 5.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Apple iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS contain a memory corruption vulnerability which can allow for code execution.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by July 18, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2018-4344 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 1.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?

The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

CVE-2018-4344 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.

Products Associated with CVE-2018-4344

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