CVE-2014-9862
Integer signedness error in bspatch.c in bspatch in bsdiff, as used in Apple OS X before 10.11.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service
02 Description
Integer signedness error in bspatch.c in bspatch in bsdiff, as used in Apple OS X before 10.11.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.76% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-07-22 01:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:55Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-06-09
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190Integer Overflow or WraparoundBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 40eb5434022ef533415a9a354d23fe0f75211b23b20270367c7b1ef58a009ae9
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com91824http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91824
- security.freebsd.orgFreeBSD-SA-16:25https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:25.bspatch.asc
- android.googlesource.comhttps://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/bsdiff/+/4d054795b673855e3a7556c6f2f7ab99ca509998
- chromium.googlesource.comhttps://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/bsdiff/+/d0307d1711bd74e51b783a49f9160775aa22e659
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2016-07-18-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00000.html
- www.securitytracker.com1036438http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036438
- bugs.chromium.orghttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=372525
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/HT206903
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1977http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00026.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20191126 [SECURITY] [DLA 2010-1] bsdiff security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00028.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202003-44https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-44
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20200709 X41 D-Sec GmbH Security Advisory X41-2020-006: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in bspatchhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/09/2
- seclists.org20200709 X41 D-Sec GmbH Security Advisory X41-2020-006: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in bspatchhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jul/8
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4500-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4500-1/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- bsdiff Fixed in 4.3-17
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- bsdiff Fixed in 4.3-17
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- bsdiff Fixed in 4.3-17
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- bsdiff Fixed in 4.3-15+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.